Calibrate for Change!

Whether you’re single or in a relationship, you’re always getting opportunities to discover who you are and who you want to be. And whether you’re aware of it or not, you’re always making decisions about who you want to be.

These decisions are backed up by a seven step process we call the Creative Process. It operates 24/7 in our lives just like gravity. If we acknowledge this process and learn to use it to our advantage we’ll be better able to take charge of our lives.

What keeps most of us from taking charge of our lives? FEAR. They say that “fear is the darkroom where the negatives in your life are developed.” This is certainly true, but the important focus in this statement for us today should be the answer to the question: Who is doing the developing? The answer is: We are!

So today I want to quickly review the seven stage process that is creating every experience you have and hopefully encourage all of us to become the conscious architects of our own lives by learning how to use this process.

Step One:

The first step occurs the moment that we create polarity by having a desire.

Polarity is defined as “an attraction toward a particular object or in a specific direction.” So, creating polarity moves us from a circumstance of status quo to one of imbalance. This imbalance represents the difference between where we are and where we want to be.

Can you honestly say that every time you’ve ever had a desire that it manifested just exactly the way you first envisioned it? Of course not! And one of the reasons for this is that nothing manifests without our going through the seven stages of this Creative Process, and the process is influenced by negative attitudes and conditioning that reside in us.

No one escapes conditioning, and I’ve never met anyone who didn’t have some attitude that was short-circuiting the good in some area of their life. But, this isn’t something we should beat ourselves up over. Releasing the conditioning and the negativity is part of the benefit of learning to use this Creative Process consciously in our lives.

Step Two:

Okay…so first we have a desire, and this creates an attraction. Then what’s required?

A word that makes a lot of us cringe. Commitment. Now, I’m not talking about just moving your lips. I’m talking about making a full emotional and intellectual commitment to the idea for which you created polarity. You have to demonstrate the amount of faith you have for achieving this goal.

In other words, the second step is where we give permission for exactly how much of this desire we will allow to exist in our personal world.

Remember: we are the ones doing the developing. But, if we don’t have the life we want, it’s because we didn’t make the necessary commitment to it in this stage of our process.

There are two major obstacles in this stage:

#1 - Separating ourselves from the allure of the old ideas because the old ways of doing things can be really painful.

#2 - There are subpersonalities within us that would prefer to keep things the way they are. It’s just so much easier!

This is why we really need to take our time in this stage.

STEP THREE:

The degree to which we commit or put our faith in this one idea or desire is the degree to which we separate it from all other ideas in our mental world. This is the point where our imagination, the third step, enters the process.

The work of the imagination is to clothe our new idea with color, size, weight, and shape. Imagination is the “scissors of your mind,” the tailor of our worlds, so to speak. It literally shapes the cloth from which our experiences are made.

The clarity we have about our goal will depend on the energy
we invest in the two stages of commitment and imagination.

Step Four:

The next stage involves contemplation and direction or the disciplines of Understanding and Will. It’s a crucial stage.

• First, our intelligence contemplates the image we created in step three of our Creative Process, and a relationship develops between us and the image of our goal.

• This relationship is our intellectual understanding of our goal. When this relationship is firmly established in our intelligence, the information passes to our subconscious mind. And there, through the discipline of our Will, energy is directed toward the ideas that support our goal, and it energizes or activates them.

This action results in the emergence of emotions. This is extremely important because manifestation requires emotional energy! We can never experience just what we think about. There has to be emotional energy attached to your thoughts, or they go nowhere!

Step Five

The fifth stage in this process involves your power to discern or judge the nature of your thoughts. Some of them will take you closer to your goal and others won’t. This is no small task.

Remember the conditioning I mentioned in Step One? Well, this is where it does its best work—by keeping us asleep and thinking those thoughts that can weaken our ability to reach our goal.

In this stage, we once again have to be vigilant. Noticing those destructive ideas and turning our thoughts to something more acceptable sounds simple enough. But, there’s such a tendency to get all worked up when those negative thoughts are brought to the surface, and the next thing we know—all our attention has shifted to what we DON’T WANT!

In other words, we’re launching a new desire! And it’s not the one we wanted, But, the Universe doesn’t deal in qualifiers. It only deals in energy. So whatever we focus our energy on for any length of time becomes our desire as far as the Creative Process is concerned. It doesn’t really care if we’re saying we don’t want some terrible thing to happen. It simply responds to your investment of energy in that terrible thing and Voila! That’s what we get! Remember this.

Step Six:

This takes us to the sixth stage called the Mental Equivalent. Did you know that every experience in our lives has a mental equivalent? There’s an inner picture held in our mind, and its characteristics allow for whatever happens to us. Now, I’m not talking about a specific act by a specific person at a specific time. I’m talking about our receptivity to experiencing events and people that reinforce attitudes we have about ourselves.

If there’s a strong conditioned belief in us that supports the idea that we’re a victim, whether we’re consciously aware of it or not, then we’re going to draw to ourself all kinds of situations and people who will victimize us on some level.

Why do you think men and women keep having the same unhappy relationships? It’s not the fault of the opposite sex. It’s because each of them is responding to a destructive attitude within themselves and hooking up with someone whose own psychology will support that. An abuser needs someone who feels unworthy and is therefore, abusable.

So perhaps you can see why the Mental Equivalent we create in our minds …

1) through our degree of commitment to our goal,

2) our ability to imagine it as real,

3) our understanding of it, and

4) our ability to focus on thoughts that support our goal

is so important. Our mental equivalent is the three-dimensional image in our mental world, our virtual reality, and it will be mirrored back to us in the external world.

There’s a familiar saying: “Whatever you can conceive and believe, you can achieve.” I leave out the “can” because whatever you conceive and believe, you achieve. PERIOD. Whatever we’re willing to accept for ourself, that is, to believe, becomes our mental equivalent, and it will manifest in our life.

But it’s important to remember that the difference between what we say we want and what we’re really willing to accept for ourself is revealed through the steps of our Creative Process. What manifests may be diluted or distorted by attitudes we just weren’t able to let go of this time through.

The beauty of the Creative Process, however, is that you have an unlimited number of tokens for taking this ride from desire to reality. So the trick is not to despair but to continue to use the process in a conscious way.

Step Seven:

There’s one more step in this process, and we call it the Sabbath. We call it that because Sabbath really means at-one-ment. In other words, it is the stage where we are at peace with our creative process and allow the Universe to unfold it.

In any creative sequence, after our mental and spiritual work has been done, there must be a cut off or a letting go! The creating has been done. The seed idea has been planted, and now is the time for the evolvement or evolution to begin.

Letting go can be very difficult because we often doubt the process. Don’t be like the little boy who planted watermelon seeds and kept digging them up to see if they were growing. Don’t keep asking yourself, “Is it working?” This doubt is the same as digging up your seed ideas and removing them from the nurturing environment you’ve been working so hard to create!

In Closing

Learning to work with the Creative Process requires us to make the effort to calibrate our thoughts and feelings so they will align with the changes we desire for our life. If we can remember this acronym I created: Processing Clarity Is Undeniably What Determines My Success.™— it will keep the steps of the process at your fingertips as you go through your day. [Notice that Step Four involves both Understanding and Will.]

If you’re not interested in being a conscious architect of your own life, that’s your choice. However, don’t be surprised over the years if you start to notice that the quality of your life rarely improves, and you find yourself wondering if you’re destined to live a life of reruns. I mean, if you don’t make the effort to improve your life, who do you think is going to?

Another thing is that if we decide to live our lives by default, then we’re choosing to live under the Law of Fluke. This means that by not choosing to take charge of our life, we give permission to the world around us to visit anything and everything on us that even comes close to matching attitudes we have about ourself whether we’re aware of them or not.

As long as we make no effort to be proactive in consistently creating our own life, we’re like a computer that has no firewall and no antivirus program. Our life will start to resemble random chaos even though there’s no such thing as a random occurrence because as you now know, WE are creating the patterns in our lives—even for what seems like chaos.

Let me say in closing that it is not easy to confront these old ideas that are blocking your good, but it is doable. In our 2004 award-winning 5 CD audio book, my late husband and I explained the Creative Process in detail. We acquaint you with the disciplines that need to be honed through practice. And, finally, we reveal some of the pitfalls you may encounter as you work with the process and offer strategies for dealing with them.

Unfortunately, I no longer offer the audiobooks, but the information has been published in paperback under the title MindSlap! – Shifting Your Perspective from Conditioned Reactions to Conscious Choices. It is available on Amazon.com at this link.

All the best on your quest,
Dannye Williamsen

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