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Part IV: Can the Future Influence Your Present?

Welcome to Part IV in my Make Your Dream Come True This Summer Series! This is the last part, as summer is now coming to a close and I have something special to share with you :) If you want to start at the beginning, you can check out the first video here. Last time, I talked about Taking Action which is really important if you want to create anything in life. Two of the biggest things that stop us from seeing our dreams come true are not taking action at all (because of fear maybe) or focusing too much on

By Christine Mattschei| September 3rd, 2012|Categories: Law of Attraction, Manifesting|Tags: Quantum Physics|5 Comments

Part III: Taking Action Even When You’re Freaked Out

Today I want to share with you Part III in my Make Your Dream Come True This Summer Series! ~ But first I have to share with you my “Wink From the Universe” experience last night :). I was heading out for a low-key Saturday night to go shopping for a dress to wear to an upcoming wedding, when I noticed a message I had received from my friend Jon. He invited me to be his date to a wedding on the Moshulu (a beautiful boat on the waterfront in Philadelphia). It was completely spontaneous as his date had just cancelled with the flu. I thought “Why not?” and did my classic get-ready-for-a-formal in 15 minutes routine, and headed over. As I was parking on the street by a meter, my heart sank as I realized we didn’t have any quarters. I was starting to feel frustrated (no ATM in site), when Jon suggested we ask the people sitting in the car behind us for change. As we approached them, their window was already down and the woman in the passenger seat was holding her hand out-stretched with about three dollars worth of quarters for us! When he offered to give her cash for the quarters, she refused. I told her I would only use what I needed and put in enough money to cover us for the remainder of the evening. There was some debate as to how much time that was, however, and the woman insisted that we put in all the quarters to be safe. I feel so blessed to receive this payment from her, and my initial frustration seems really silly now. I had an amazing, spontaneous night and it all fell together perfectly. Check out our silly pictures! 🙂 ~ And now for Part III: Taking Action Even When You’re Freaked Out! I’ve decided to make it all text rather than video for a change of pace (and to give those of you who have trouble accessing video a break :)). If you haven’t seen my first two videos yet, you can start by watching the first one here. Today I’d like to talk to you about taking action. Once you’ve had a dream form in your mind and it starts to build, it is so important to start doing something about it.

By Christine Mattschei| August 21st, 2012|Categories: Law of Attraction|Tags: Taking Action, Wink From the Universe|14 Comments

How Do You Know if Your Belief Serves You?

A dream come true starts with the belief that a dream is possible first. But have you ever wanted something really bad and then realized that you don't want it anymore after you got it? Or maybe your dream come true really is amazing. But you thought your life would be perfect if you just had that one thing, and now you realize it isn't. There are still problems to deal with. Or you realize that it's nice to get what you want, but not particularly amazing. What seemed glittery, fascinating, and full of illusion when it was just beyond your grasp just gives you the same feeling as looking at the furniture in your living room after you get it. (Who would have thought?) Or maybe you realize that you don't want what you thought you wanted after all. Maybe you were completely mistaken in your desire, and everything you dreamed it would be was just a fantasy that has nothing to do with objective reality. Maybe by getting what you thought you wanted, you ended up with something you truly don't want at all. That's definitely happened to me before.

By Christine Mattschei| April 23rd, 2012|Categories: Law of Attraction, Manifesting|Tags: Beliefs, Dr. Simonton, Healthy Thinking, Positive Thinking|11 Comments

What are the Exact Steps for Visualizing Healing and Change?

Okay, so you know the basics of creative visualization are getting into a relaxed state and then visualizing what you would like to happen. If you'd like more information about the basic steps, you can start by reading a four part series I wrote about detailed visualization here or sign up for my newsletter to get my free ebook (where I explain more) if you haven't yet. But once you get started, a whole bunch of other questions come up. Like what exactly should you visualize for the best effect? And how long or how often should you practice visualization for? Does spending more time at it indefinitely increase the effect, or is there a tipping point? These are some questions I received from a reader recently, and I'd like to address them in today's post here.

By Christine Mattschei| March 26th, 2012|Categories: Law of Attraction, Manifesting, Meditation, Random Inspiration|Tags: Creative Visualization, Detailed Visualiation, healing, law of attraction, Steps for Visualization|21 Comments

How Detailed Does Your Visualization Need to Be? Part III: How Visualization Works

One of the side effects of going to school for psychology is that I'll probably always want to do a literature search to answer any lingering questions I have about behavior even if I don't have to hand in a term paper and no one is going to be checking my references. :) But the main reason for it is--wouldn't it be amazing to have actual evidence that there are techniques that really work for manifesting? Sometimes we have a hard time developing habits for things that we already know will work (like exercise)--but with something like manifesting it can be even harder, because it's somewhat ephemeral, and we're not even really sure what *it* is, even if we know it's a process. So that's what this post is all about. After sharing what my personal experiences have taught me and those of others, I want to share with you what the research shows.

By Christine Mattschei| October 25th, 2011|Categories: Law of Attraction, Manifesting|Tags: Creative Visualization, Visualization Research, Visualization Studies|4 Comments

How Detailed Does Your Visualization Need to Be? Part II: What I’ve Learned From Others

Shakti Gawain: Getting Clear The first book I ever read on manifesting and visualization was Shakti Gawain's "Creative Visualization." It's still my favorite book on the topic, and one of the most influential books I've ever read. I've read the book again and again many different times, and the overall feeling that I come away with is that a preference in approach regarding how detailed a visualization or a specific desire should be is not given. There is definitely a warning not to force anything and not to be too attached to the outcome. If anything, my impression is that the more detailed and specific you are, the better. I did find one statement while I was flipping through it again where Shakti says that once she has a very clear, strong intention to create a particular thing, it manifests almost immediately (often within hours or days of getting clear about it) with very little effort involved. She goes on to say this is the case after a great deal of time and energy processing before the clarity needed to be worked through is achieved.

By Christine Mattschei| October 18th, 2011|Categories: Law of Attraction, Manifesting|Tags: Creative Visualization, Detailed Visualization|7 Comments

How Detailed Does Your Visualization Need to Be? Part I

When I first started experimenting with manifesting and visualizations, I wanted very specific things. This is normal--most of us come to this practice because we want specific things rather than general ones. In my case, I wanted a specific relationship I was in to deepen and be full of peace rather than full of drama and uncertainty. While you can never change another person's mind or behavior, it is definitely possible to affect others by changing yourself and engaging God/The Universe to shift the energy you're in and help out.

By Christine Mattschei| October 11th, 2011|Categories: Law of Attraction, Manifesting, Synchronicity|Tags: Creative Visualization, Detailed Visualization|5 Comments

How to Create Synchronicity

This is a topic that is near and dear to my heart, since I truly live for those moments of synchronicity that surprise me and show me that the world is not always what it seems. So you may be wondering, what exactly is synchronicity and why would I want to create it? Well basically a synchronicity is a coincidence that is so bizarre, it doesn't seem likely that it could happen merely by chance. It may be a huge experience that changes your life forever, or it may be a seemingly insignificant experience that could only mean something to you, based on what you are feeling and thinking in the moment. Such experiences can either drastically change your life or simply reinforce the connectedness of everything in the universe.

By Christine Mattschei| September 5th, 2011|Categories: Law of Attraction, Synchronicity|Tags: Create Synchronicity, Synchronicity|5 Comments