Reginald Cuffee

One of most powerful abilities we have been given is our imagination.  With imagination, we have the freedom to choose the details of our life, dream any dream, uncover the secrets of our heart, and see them manifest right before our very eyes, but many people dangerously misuse this innate ability.

How do we misuse their imagination?  We WORRY!   

We worry about the economy.  We worry about money.  We worry about our health.   We worry about something someone said that offended us three weeks ago.  We worry that we might get what we want.  We worry about our  family members.  We worry about our futures.  Worry! Worry! Worry!

Our worries go on and on.  I could fill this article with lists of all the worries the ego invents to sway us from our path and to stand in the way of our manifesting prosperity.

As hard as it is to believe, our ego thinks it’s doing us a favor by prophesying what can go wrong.  It sees “problems”  or anything out of our comfort zones as danger; thus it thinks it’s protecting us from what can go wrong.  But worrying only cause us to get what we don’t want.

If you find your ego causing you to worrying, STOP it because when you worry, you are using your imagination to focus on what you don’t want to experience instead of what you do want.  Thus you are setting the stage for that feared outcome to manifest in your reality.  

When we are worrying, we are not trusting our personal connection to the Universe (God), and we have stopped being grateful for what IS.  Instead of being grateful,  we are now focusing on the negative aspects of “what if” this or that occur in the future.  Furthermore, we have become attached  the idea that this future event will not happen the way it think it should.  

The act of worrying is a massive drain on our ability to manifest prosperity in our lives ; however, it is not all bad if we use it as a feedback tool.  I know this statement may sound strange, but worrying can be good because it creates awareness.  It is a real-time indicator of how your ego is working against what you desire to experience.

For example, if you are worrying about a lack of money to pay your mortgage, or you are worrying that your spouse is cheating because he or she is late getting home, is that what you really want to experience.  No!  You want the opposite of what you are focusing on when you worry.  Instead, you want the money to pay for your mortgage or you want a faithful and loving spouse. 

So, if you find yourself worrying, you can choose to step out your worry state by recognizing what is occurring.  This is the most important step which is to become conscious aware that you are worrying.  After you choose to stop worrying, you can use your imagination and refrain your worrying into what you want to experience.  To accomplish the refrain, use the following 3 Minute Reframing Technique.  I have been using this technique for nearly five years, and it works better and better each time I use it. 

3 Minute Reframing Technique

This technique is an effective tool for replacing any form of doubt, fear, and worry that may be blocking the path to your desire.  This technique allows you to reprogramming your subconscious mind with a vision of what you desire.  This vision is made powerful by adding the enthusiastic anticipation of living your life as it would BE in that new reality.

To use this technique, complete the following 4 steps:

Step 1:  Go To Your Safe Harbor

Go to your safe harbor which is simply a mental “place” to which you can retreat to whenever you choose.  It may be an image of a childhood hideaway, a memory of an especially peaceful scene, or a “picture” of your own creation.  Whatever you choose, it is a place where you can go just by closing your eyes and visualizing it.  It is a special peaceful place where no one else can come.  This is why it is called a “safe harbor. 

 Your peaceful place could be:

• on the beach, listening to the waves rolling in,
• on a path in the woods communing with nature,
• enjoying a Summer breeze while fishing on the lake, or watching waving field of grass,
• at the oceanfront admiring a beautiful sunset.

Think of your favorite place and go there in your mind.  Be at peace for a full minute or two.  This moment of peace may take longer to establish the first time you do it, but having done it once or twice, you will find yourself at peace almost the moment you close your eyes to go to your safe harbor in the future. 

This moment of peace, intentionally, places a buffer between you and your fears, doubt, and who you are currently Being.

After you feel relaxed, go to step 2.

Step 2: Set Your Intention

Declare your intention for your desire by saying it out loud in your head.  For example, “I have $2500.00 to easily met my July 2009 mortgage payment.  I will manifest this in a way that is easy, joyous, and for my highest good.” 

Step 3: Imagine who you are Being  

Visualize your life as it would be if the reason for your fear (or weakness or doubt) no longer existed.  Who would you be BEING and how would you FEEL if your fear, weakness, and doubt were gone, and you manifested your desire in your intention?  Your intent in this step is to experience the feeling you would have if you are Being the person with your intention manifested. 

In your imagination, you are not looking for the solution or how to do it; you have already manifested it, and are FEELING the joy, the satisfaction and over all good feeling you would just naturally experience if your fear and doubt were gone and your desire was manifested.  

The important thing is to put yourself in the picture.  Do not see yourself as you look at a movie screen.  As you are visualizing, empower your vision with the joyful feelings of a happy ending.  Generate and experience the good feeling you would have if your intention manifested NOW and then experience that triumph with all the good feeling you can muster.

Remember what you think about and focus on will expand and become your reality. 

As you do, the Universe will send you ideas, the right people, and circumstances  that will assist you in manifesting your desires.  When you receive these ideas, you must take action.  If you desire $2500.00, do you really believe you will get it if you just set and intention and focus on it?  No!!!  You have to take inspired action.  When you DO, you will HAVE what you intended.

Step 4: Thank the Source (God)

Give gratitude to Source, Spirit, or whatever you call your higher power, for manifesting your intention.  Say, “Thank you, God!  And So It Is!”  Your vision is empowered; you have seen your intention manifested, and you are feeling thankful for the new reality that is already your.  It is important, in this step, that you feel a very strong sense of gratitude.  An attitude of gratitude is the most powerful of all vibrations.

Use the technique for 3 or 4 times a day or as often as necessary, when you become aware that you are worrying.  

Namaste,

 

Reginald

written by Reginald Cuffee

Did you know the thoughts you think before dozing off to sleep at night and the thoughts you think when you awaken first thing in the morning, set the tone for how you will feel and what you experience for the rest of the day?

Although this is a fact, the majority of people are totally unconscious and unaware about what they think about during these important moments.

Even more surprising is when you think, you think in pictures.  If you don’t believe it, do this simple exercise.  Think of your car?  Did a picture of your car appear in your mind’s eye? Try it again, but this time think of your house?  Did the picture of the car disappear from your mind’s eye and a picture of your house appear?

Well, this same process occurs with your final thoughts and first thoughts of each day.

If you go to bed with the final thought, “I’m really tired”, guess what occurs?  When you awaken in the morning, you will still feel tired.  This occurs because the mental movie of tiredness and fatigue played all night long programming you to wake up almost as tired as when you went to bed.

If you change your thought before falling off to sleep to, “In the morning, I feel great and full of energy”‘ and if you visualize in your mind’s eye yourself arising in the morning filled with vibrancy and zest, then I assure you it will happen.

Furthermore, if you awaken in the morning, with thoughts such as “God No!”, this will also set the tone for your day.  Instead, think “God YES!”  When you do, this will immediately bring gratitude into your awareness.

I have used this simple technique, and it really works.  I taught this technique to some people who were always waking up tired each morning, and when they did it, they were simply blown away at how powerful and effective it is.

So, test drive this technique for yourself, and experience the amazing shift in your energy level in the morning.

Now this technique doesn’t just work with your energy level, but it works with other areas of your life.  For example, let’s say you want to wake up feeling more peaceful and joyous than when you went to bed.  To accomplish this intention, don’t go to bed with thoughts of anger or feeling upset  because that’s what you’ll be programming yourself to think when you wake up in the morning.

Sure, your reality for you right now may be the opposite of what I’m suggesting you to think and mentally visualize, but the only way out of the maze is to begin thinking and visualizing of what you desire.  Begin seeing yourself the way you want to be in when you awaken in the morning, as if you are already experiencing it right NOW.

If you go to bed with the image of waking up wealthier and happier, your subconscious mind will work on this image as you sleep.  In turn you’ll awaken with financial prosperous thoughts.  However, you must take action to make your imagination become the reality you desire.

To further help you set the tone for what you feel and experience during your day, think prosperous thoughts about such as being healthy, having a loving relationship with your primary partner, or receiving increasing financial abundance throughout the day and before you know it, you’ll be bumping into one opportunity after another which are all designed put you on the path of prosperous living.

Finally, live your day with powerful movies and picture playing in your imagination and before long your imagination will be what you’re living.

As Ione of my mentors once said,  ”What’s the difference between imagination and reality?”

“TIME!”   Time is the only difference between imagination and reality.  There’s a fine line between the two, and no one knows where that fine line begins or ends.”

P.T. Barnum once said, “Imagination is the elixir of life.”

When you use your creative imagination to create a brighter future, you feel the effervescent energy of an elixir bubbling up all around you, and you come to understand that everything in the Universe vibrates - including YOU.

If you use your imagination to put negative movies into your mind, you lower your vibration and you will not experience the bubbling energy.

If you play positive movies in your mind, you immediately begin to vibrate with MORE life, and you instantly stand up straighter, breathe more fully, get a gleam in your eye and power in your step.

To change your results in your life, you must change how you feel, and how you feel is based on the pictures in your mind.  If you don’t feel a strong, pulsing vibration inside your mind and body right now, it is because you’re looking at low-level mental pictures and movies.

Upgrade your pictures and movies, my friend.  Play only the best.  Think only of the best, and the best will pursue you while you move toward it.

Namaste,

RC

written by Reginald Cuffee