Manifest

This is your card reading for Tuesday, May 12th/15.  Your card skimmed out of the 'Yoga Inner Spirit Reflection' card deck, authored by Angela Wiens. I met Angela, who was conducting the daily yoga sessions, out at the Vancouver Island retreat with Panache Desai that I attended in August, 2014 and we felt a strong connection to one another!  I selected Angela's deck for today's reading because I will be gifting a copy to my dear friend today for her birthday!  Your card is 'Manifest', and Angela's message for the card is this:
"All is possible when I manifest from spirit.  I observe and release my limiting beliefs so I can imagine more than I thought possible.
REFLECTION:  What do I want to manifest in my life?"

My message for you today is this:
'Change your thoughts and your change your world.'  I have this quote displayed on my wall downstairs.  I have long held the belief that what we focus upon expands and that we have the ability to manifest what we wish to draw into our lives through the power of thought and focus and INTENTION.  But I have to share with you an adjunct to that perspective that Panache Desai has revealed for me, that resonates with me, also.  Panache expounds in the 'Tracking Our Thoughts' chapter of his book, 'Discovering Your Soul Signature', that:
"If our thoughts created our reality, we'd all be in very big trouble.  Just imagine if your every thought became real. 'I hate myself and wish I were dead. I hate this other person and wish she were dead.  I think I have cancer.  I don't have enough money to pay the bills'...
But the truth is that our thoughts---without being backed up by emotion---have no power. They have no juice.  Only when a thought is consistently accompanied by a feeling does it yield any control over your life."
Panache says that emotions are energy in motion.  It is the energy that you attribute to the thoughts that empower them and that is how you utilize them in assisting you to manifest. That is why we are advised to FEEL the joy, satisfaction, pride, etc. of having drawn into our life that which we wish to manifest BEFORE it is being experienced in our reality here in the physical.  The energy of the emotions that you attach to your thoughts and desires is what actually draws that experience to you.  It sounds complicated, but it is very simple.  As you sit with the thoughts about what you desire to bring into your life experience, allow yourself to FEEL that experience in the present moment.  
Do not become your own 'thought police' as Panache describes it...that is futile.  It does not serve you to be self-critical for the thoughts that enter your mind and to do so is just a waste of energy.  There is another popular idiom these days that says, 'What you resist persists'. The more you try to deny certain thoughts, the more they pop into your head.  Rather than resist them, just allow them to float on through, without self-recrimination.  Then, when you desire to manifest, consciously choose where you will place your attention and spark that attention with the fuel of the emotion that accompanies it for you.  That is the best recipe for manifestation right there! As you create your vision board, for example (if you choose to do so), feel the emotions that the images evoke for you.  As you plant the seed of manifestation, feel as you will feel when your seed is fully grown and in radiant bloom.  You get the picture...  
The Universe is abundant and it is working in your favour.  Be open and accepting of that.
Your thoughts and your emotions are a gift from the Divine and are not meant to be 'conquered', but rather utilized, in assisting you to best navigate this Earthly experience for your own greater good!
Blessed be...