In this class, you will learn how to manifest any goal, and how to use the reality control room to reprogram your subconscious mind.
Transcript
Brandon: Welcome to The Art of Reality Creation 2.0. This is class #3, and as always, we are here with Brandon and Christine.
Justin: And Justin!
Christine: Justin, hi. I was waiting. I didn’t know if you were trying…
Brandon: [laughs] And Justin, too. We do the same every week.
Christine: I thought you announced them all and then I’d…
Brandon: Nope. Usually I say hi after I say “Christine.”
Christine: Sorry. I’m a little out of it, today.
Brandon: We may be able to get through everything today because we haven’t gotten a ton of questions about the material so far on things we haven’t covered. I think we may be able to cover the remaining material today, possibly. I know what material I want to cover, so you’ll just see how that works.
Just as a reminder, the first class we covered inertia versus dynamism. That’s one of the most important concepts, I’d say, in all of this: how to use inertia, when to use dynamism. Last class we discussed how to choose your goals, what kind of goals there are, how to know what kind of goal you have (whether it’s a current level, next level, ultimate level goal) and how to approach it. We gave some general tips for approaching each type of goal, and today we’ll get a bit more specific with all of that. Really, a lot of it is very similar, but we’ll give a bit more advice about that kind of thing. That’s what happened in the last class.
Why the Process Focuses on Next Level Goals
Brandon: Today will be about the creation process in general. This applies mainly…Current level goals don’t really play a part in this because a current level goal…
Christine: You don’t have to do much.
Brandon: You think about and it happens. I was just commenting to Christine about this the other day. Last week I had a random thought like, “Oh, it’d be nice to get another sign-up for Co-Creation Coaching.” Then maybe a day later, if that, I got a sign-up. Then a few days later, I said, “It’d be cool to get another sign-up.” It was just a random thought. Then I got another sign-up. That’s a current level goal. If it’s not that easy, it’s really not a current level goal. You don’t have to do any of this stuff for a current level goal.
For an ultimate level goal, you’re really going to break it up into multiple next level goals, so really what we’re dealing with is next level goals. Either it’s so simple you don’t have to do any of this anyway, or it’s so far above you that you’re going to have to break it down anyway because you can’t do it all in one jump. This is really the art of knowing how to get to the next level. If you can get to the next level, then you can get to the next level above that, and you can get to the next level above that, and so on and so on. You get to your goal no matter where it is. If it’s on this level, then cool. You don’t have to do any of this stuff. Just skip it all. [laughs]
Justin: Yes.
Brandon: But if it’s a really big goal, you break it down and chunk it up and do each one individually. So it’s really all dealing with next level goals. That’s really the building blocks we have here. I think it’s useful to break it down in that way. That’s what we’re going to be discussing: basically, how do you get to the next level? How do you generate (we’ll talk about subconscious structures momentarily, but you probably already know about those) the subconscious structures to get to your next goal, whatever that is? I want you to have in mind a next level goal. If your goal is ultimate level, just break it down. Choose something that’s next level. That’s what I want you to do for this class. Apply these techniques as we discuss them. See how you might do the things we’re talking about.
We talked about inertia. Inertia is just the way that things are going, the current level, what’s here right now. That’s great. That’s fine. If you have a next level goal, obviously you want to break that inertia. You want to apply some dynamism.
Two Parts of the Process
Brandon: The whole process I divide into two sections. Generally these are the creative process (the time when you’re actually sitting down and doing a technique, ritual, journaling, visualizing, affirming, or whatever it is you’re doing) and the rest of it (which I call the “debugging” process). Do you remember this from the first “The Art of Reality Creation”?
Justin: Absolutely.
Brandon: Debugging is just the rest of the time you’re dealing with stuff that comes up to the surface. It may be immediately after the technique. It may be in the middle of the day when you’re in your commute or something and you get hit by these negative thoughts. Where did that come from? It came from the work you did earlier or last night or whatever for your goal. That’s where it came from. [laughs] Then you have debugging. That’s basically the two parts of the process.
Don’t Overextend the Creation Part
Brandon: Here’s the big thing: you don’t want the creative part of the process to be overextended. It’s supposed to be a process you do, you let go of, and you go about your day. We have these people who have been commenting who try to do it all day long. They try to keep the feeling in their minds all day and try to always be thinking the right way and always be visualizing and whatever. They’re pretending they’re at their goal. The creative process lasts maybe 5, maybe 10 minutes. I will tell you I never do 10 minutes. I will tell you I never do 10 minutes. Generally, maybe 5 minutes. The creative process is not really long. I think a lot of you are overestimating the whole thing. It doesn’t take that much power. [laughs]
Justin: Go as long as you feel you really need to go. Then absolutely drop it, because you’ve got to let the energy go out and do its work. You’ve got to let it go out and do its work. I’m not saying this is the easiest thing in the world, because it’s not, but if you don’t let it go out and do its work, it’s not going to come back to you.
Brandon: Your goal is something that is growing apart from you. It’s not in you, per se. It’s not just in your mind. It’s actually a real energetic construct that is growing in the astral.
Justin: In the astral plane, yes.
Brandon: It’s growing. Every time you work on it, it’s growing a bit more. But if you keep hanging on to the energy, you can’t let it go to go do its thing. I’m sorry, this is the most random analogy in the whole…
Christine: And you yell at me about being random.
Brandon: World. I’m so sorry about this one. Do you know those people who write a message in a bottle and throw it out to sea? [laughs] It’s like doing that and not letting go of it. Just holding on to it. “I wonder if anyone found it.” No, because you haven’t let go of it yet.
Christine: Did you already throw it or not?
Brandon: No, you haven’t thrown it. You’re holding on to it.
Justin: By all means, when you get the feeling to do something. Like, I’m writing a book, so when I get the feeling to write, I write. But then afterwards, you let it go. You can’t just hold on to it or it’s not going to come to you.
Brandon: Exactly. The creative process has to be a very short-term thing. What I mean by that is, you do it for a few minutes, build up the energy, build up the energy, release the energy, and then you let it go.
Christine: You know what it reminds me of that might be a more practical analogy?
Brandon: Yes. Thank you.
Christine: Well, we’ll see how my analogies are. If you’re about to send in paperwork in the mail. “I wonder what they’re going to think.” Or an email. And you haven’t sent it. “I wonder what they’re going to say. I’m afraid to send it.”
Brandon: That is a better analogy. [laughs]
Christine: Ha-ha. And you yell at me.
Brandon: It just popped into my head, and I’m doomed to repeat anything that pops into my head during a class.
Christine: No more yelling at me about it, then.
Brandon: [laughs] It kind of made sense.
Christine: Sort of.
Brandon: You only want to do it for a few minutes because you build up that energy (which is great) and then you’ve got to let go of the energy. If you don’t do that, it’s not going to go anywhere. It’s not going to do its thing and build your goal up. You have to let go of the energy. That has to be part of the whole process. Otherwise, it’s just going to stagnate and not do anything. You’ll feel that. I know I’ve done this before. You hold on to it and hold on to it and hold on to it and nothing happens.
Christine: I’m good at it, too.
Brandon: “I’m feeling it all day long.” Yes, that’s the problem! You don’t have to be in this state all day long. You just have to do it for a few minutes and then let it go. The rest of your day doesn’t really matter much. I remember when I would read Richard Dotts. I really like Richard Dotts, you know that. When I would read his books, he would say, “You’ve got to feel good all day. Manifestation is 24/7.” So I would try to feel good all day. It really didn’t make any difference. Honestly, now when I get manifestations super quickly (I’ve said this before; I don’t mean to beat a dead horse) I’m not super joyful all day. I’m just a normal person. I’m really not in any super-high emotional state or anything like that. I’m just normal. I just feel whatever everyone feels all day. Sometimes I even have pretty low-grade anxiety.
Christine: Do you ever.
Brandon: [laughs] I don’t feel phenomenal. Let’s just say that. I don’t feel terrible, but I don’t feel phenomenal or anything, and I get a lot of manifestations. It’s not down to emotions. It’s just doing the process when you do it–hopefully once a day, preferably maybe twice if you want to–but don’t keep hanging on to it. You do it. You let it go. That’s about it. That is a big thing that people get into sometimes: obsessing.
Christine: It’s like someone always wanted to ride on training wheels on a bike. That’s me because I can’t balance.
Justin: I have great balance.
Brandon: I’m jealous.
Christine: Lucky you. You can teach it to us.
Brandon: [laughs] You have to let go of it. That’s just one big part of the process. Let’s talk about the creative process first. Then we’ll talk about the debugging process. You all know about structural tension at this point, but I will describe it just in case you don’t. I would go back and read my old posts on it because I don’t want to cover everything. We wouldn’t have the time to do all that.
The Seed Analogy
Brandon: What I want to introduce is what I’ve described before as “vibrational essence” or “vibrational signature.” Take your pick. It doesn’t really matter. Let’s just say vibrational signature. It’s more sciency-sounding to me. You have the vibrational signature of your goal.
Now, don’t overanalyze this. I had someone saying, “What if you’re a little bit off?” Don’t overanalyze this. It’s just generally what you would feel if you had the goal right now or if you had just gotten it. It doesn’t have to be ecstatic, just the way you would feel if you got the goal. That’s a vibrational signature. You don’t have to get it right-on because you’re going to be homing in on it throughout this whole process. Don’t worry about getting it right-on. Just ask yourself, “How would I feel if I had this goal?”
The reason I want to bring this up first is, you can imagine this vibrational signature as a seed. In programming, we have this term called a “seed.” You seed a random number generator or something.
Christine: I didn’t know this.
Brandon: Basically (because computers are not good at random numbers) it means you seed it. Or it could mean you seed a database. You give it default data. You seed a random number generator because otherwise, it will give predictable results. You seed it with the current time or something, and then it gives random numbers. That is sort of how this is. You’re seeding the goal. You can think of it as a regular seed, too. It’s sort of the same difference. Basically, this is a seed.
What happens is, energetically speaking, you take this vibrational signature or seed, and you go down deep with it. You go down into your subconscious with it. Anytime you hold a thought or a feeling, your subconscious and energetic field (which is synonymous) will attempt to synchronize with that thought. If I think “I want $50,000 a year,” that is a thought. That is a vibrational signature. That is a seed.
If I hold that seriously (choose it with my will and all that kind of stuff), my subconscious mind will try to synch up with that thought. Take a thought that you already believe, like, “I choose to make” whatever you make now. Say you make $30,000. “I choose to make $30,000 a year.” Feel how comfortable that thought is. Ignore how you want to make more. Ignore that part of it. Just take, “I choose to make $30,000 a year.” Just take that part and feel how comfortable it is. Your subconscious mind can synch up with it. It says, “Yes, okay, that’s how it is. Sure, whatever.”
Justin: It’s almost like wearing a cloak or a coat or something.
Brandon: It can synch up with that just fine. Now, if you say, “I would like to make $35,000,” (raise it up a little bit), there’s a little discomfort. “Okay, I can probably do that.” Take $50,000 or something significantly higher than what you make, and it’s going to start to feel uncomfortable. Here’s what happens. You take a thought, which is your seed, and you hold it. Your subconscious mind or energy field tries to synch up with it. It tries to synchronize itself to it.
It tries to attune itself to that energy because your subconscious mind does not like contradiction. It doesn’t like contradiction. If you tell it something, it’s going to try to agree with it. If it can’t agree with it, you’ll feel uncomfortable. If I say, “I’d like to make $30,000” and that is what I’m already making, it says, “Yes, I can agree with that. Fine. Sure. I can fully agree with that. I’m on board with it. Cool.”
If I say, “I’d like to make $50,000,” then the subconscious says, “Wait a minute. We don’t have that right now. Let me see if I can have it.” It goes searching. Can I have $50,000 a year? It runs into all the obstacles that are in the way of you having $50,000. I’m not talking about physical obstacles. That’s nothing to your subconscious. That’s nothing. It can generate a pathway very easily. If you were ready for $50,000 and just not having it yet, it would be a current level goal. You could have it just like that. [snaps] It would synch up with it just fine. It would create a pathway. It looks for ways to get there, and it runs into an obstacle, like a belief like “I can’t make that much” or “It’s hard to make more money” or “More money equals more work.”
Christine: Because it’s such a big jump from 30 to 50.
Brandon: Right, exactly. It tries to synch up with your goal or thought, and it can’t do it. Now, that’s an awesome thing. I know it’s a pain in the butt, but it’s really good.
Christine: [laughs] Yes. We’d be manifesting stuff that wasn’t good for us.
Brandon: Right. It’s protective, because you don’t want every little thought manifesting right away.
Justin: No, you don’t. Trust me.
Brandon: You hold a thought. Your subconscious mind tries to synch up with it because that thought is like a seed. It tries to make that happen. It either can, in which case it’s a current level goal….So, when I thought last week that it’d be really cool if someone signed up because no one had for a little while, and someone did, that’s a current level goal. I thought that thought, and the subconscious mind said, “Yes, I can get on board with that,” and it did, and it happened. I had nothing to do with it. I just thought the thought. I didn’t do anything. I didn’t take any action.
But if it can’t get there because of some limiting belief or subconscious program, then it will come back and say, “Wait a second. We can’t do it because you told me to believe blank. Would you rather have this thought you’re holding, or would you rather me keep believing blank?” Blank is “Money is too hard to make” or “If you try to make more money, you have to work harder, too” or whatever belief is in the way. It might not tell you exactly, but you’ll start to have random thoughts that are fearful. That’s the start of the creative process. That’s the structural tension.
The moment you go within yourself and hold that seed or vibrational seed or goal, you’ve generated tension. The subconscious knows you don’t have it yet. It also knows it can’t get there yet. When there’s tension, it needs to resolve it. That’s structural tension. It doesn’t like tension. It tries to resolve it. It will either tell you, “You can’t have it. Drop the vision already. Let’s get back to status quo and homeostasis. Let’s return back.” Most people will do that. “Oh, yeah, it’s just too hard.” The subconscious loves that because it really just wants the norm and homeostasis. It wants everything to be normal. Most people will do that. It’s a very attractive option. “We can’t do it. Why even try? Just drop the whole thing.” That’s normally what people will do.
Your Subconscious Reacts to Your Emotions
Brandon: But, where creation comes in is when you say, “No, no no. I want this goal. And I want it more than I want that belief.” I described this in a post I did recently (today, actually) about “Are You Leading Life, or is Life Leading You?” Basically, obviously logically speaking, you’re going to say, “Heck, yeah. I want to have my goal more than I want that belief.” But your subconscious mind doesn’t care about what you really want. It cares about what you react to emotionally.
You’ve got to understand this emotional key to the subconscious. Emotions are really how the subconscious speaks to you and how you speak to the subconscious. If you have that goal, that feels good, great. But then it brings up that belief, and that’s a stronger emotional reaction. You’re really reacting to that fear. It says, “Oh, I got it. This belief is still just as important as before, so never mind the goal.” The belief is strengthened.
It brings up this sequence of ultimatums or either-ors. Do you want this goal or do you want this belief? Based on what you react to emotionally, that’s how the subconscious knows what your choice is. You can’t just say, “No, I want the goal.” The subconscious mind doesn’t know language. What it does know is emotion. The way you tell your subconscious mind what you want is how you feel. We’ll discuss that more later on, how you do that.
You have to feel how you want to feel. You have to make the goal more important than that little fearful thought. That’s the way you start to change those subconscious structures. That’s the way you start to grow the energy of that goal. You keep choosing it over and over and over again through your emotions. You make it more important than those subconscious fears, beliefs, and programs. It’s just a process of choosing one over the other, choosing a goal over the other belief.
It’s just that process, but it’s really hard because it’s going to fight back. Your subconscious mind wants homeostasis. It wants the status quo. It’s so important to realize. I said this before. It doesn’t care about you feeling good. It just cares about safety, normalcy. It just wants everything to be the way it is. New things are scary. New things are unknown and unfamiliar. “What are you trying to do to us?” [laughs] It doesn’t want all that.
Christine: Once you program it, though, it’s pretty simple.
Brandon: Yes. Once you start to show it, “No, this goal is more important,” then it starts to be familiarized with it because you’re feeling the goal. Then it says, “Well, you reacted to this thought.” It’s not biased. “You reacted to this thought more than the belief I was holding, so that belief must not be important anymore. So it drops it.”
Christine: It’s like a malleable computer.
Brandon: Yes, it is. It’s a programmable (all computers are programmable) computer. [laughs]
Christine: That’s sentient.
Brandon: Yes, sort of.
Christine: We are.
Brandon: You’re the one controlling it.
Christine: Right.
Brandon: That is the process of creation. It’s very simple, yet very difficult. Everyone knows who has been through this process, those beliefs…
Christine: They get you.
The Subconscious Will Generate the “How”
Brandon: Yes, they’re really convincing and persuasive. It’s hard. It’s really hard, but that’s the process. As you choose the belief over and over and over again, then the subconscious mind gets the point. It starts to drop the other beliefs that are getting in the way. It starts to generate a pathway to the goal. That’s the important part.
Your job is to decide on the goal and then to feel the endpoint, the end of the journey. You’re deciding on a goal in the beginning, and you’re feeling what you’ll feel in the end when you have it. The other stuff in the middle is all subconscious. You don’t do any of that. Yes, you might be inspired to act. That’s great. But you don’t seek those out. That’s almost mini-goals in themselves, because you’ll know exactly what to do. Each of those will bring you closer to your goal in a very real, definable way. You don’t seek those out. You just let your subconscious motivate you to the right actions.
But you set the vision. You start the path. You feel the end of the path (what the goal will feel like when you have it). The way there–that’s the subconscious mind’s job. You can’t do that. That’s not your job. You don’t know the best way there. If you say, “I want $50,000,” and you say, “I don’t know how I’m going to do it. I can’t see a way,” that doesn’t matter. You decide what you want. That’s all that matters. In my post today, I had you ask the question, “What is it I want?” That’s what you ask. What is it I want? That’s what matters. That’s the beginning and the end of it. Once you decide that and you feel it and you choose it and you really believe it, the subconscious mind will move mountains to get you there. It will.
Justin: You start with the end in mind, and you allow your subconscious to get you there.
Brandon: Right. It’s like, you’re in the beginning where you are now, and you want to acknowledge that. You’re also at the end within yourself. You’ve got to hold the end in mind. The stuff in the middle–that’s where the magic happens because the subconscious mind will generate the pathway. It’s always been amazing to me. I’ve seen it happen over and over and over again. I can rarely predict what it’s going to do, very rarely. Sometimes it’s pretty obvious, but I can rarely predict what it’s going to do. But it will generate that pathway.
Justin: When you start acting, don’t worry about whether the actions are right or not. Just act. If you get stopped or it doesn’t seem to work out right away, don’t worry about it. Just stop, reset, reload. Sometimes, you just have to repeat the same actions because you had to move stuff out of the way. Sometimes you’re going to do totally different actions. Don’t worry about the actions. If you have to ask whether it’s inspired, that is not inspiration. You might go the wrong way, but that is okay because then you know that way is blocked. That means I checked early so I didn’t have to worry about if I missed something later. Don’t even worry about it. Just follow the energy line.
Brandon: Right. It will tell you exactly what to do. It will bring up opportunities. The thing to understand is that the subconscious mind will generate the path of least resistance. For example, if you want to start making more money, theoretically speaking you could get a large check in the mail because someone randomly got the motivation to send you a check. That could probably happen. Generally, it’s not going to, because how many of us really believe that could happen? It’s going to choose the path of least resistance. It doesn’t mean it’s a bad path. It’s just the path of least resistance.
I always give the example of when I first started Co-Creation Coaching, I started to try to get more money using the law of attraction. At first, I was really self-conscious because almost all of it came through Christine. I was like, “What am I doing wrong? I want to have some of it, too.” [laughs] I’m manifesting, but it’s all coming through her. That was the path of least resistance. I just wasn’t open. That door wasn’t open to allow it to come through different ways. Once the door was open, then it did come. With the SSI thing, the door was open. I didn’t know I’d get a job. That was the last thing on my mind. It just sort of happened, somehow, the path of least resistance. I must have really reduced that resistance. I used to have a lot of resistance to it. It will find the easiest, best path. It’s not always the path you’d prefer. That path might not be open to you because of resistance and whatnot.
Justin: Any number of reasons.
Brandon: Right. When you ask for more money or choose to have more money, it could come through a promotion. It could come through an inheritance. It could come through a lottery win. It could come through any number of means, but your subconscious mind will find the easiest, fastest way of getting there. That’s not really your concern. It will generate that path. It’s always going to be the path of least resistance, just like a river flowing. When a new river is forming, it’s going to flow down the slope in the path of least resistance and carve out the riverbed. It’s going to go in the way that is least resistant to it. Energy will always flow in the path of least resistance, just like in a lightning strike and they say not to touch metal or stand under a large tree. The path of least resistance for lightning is the tall objects.
Justin: Do not fly a kite in the storm
Christine: Then they make canes out of aluminum.
Brandon: I know. Energy’s always going to follow the path of least resistance. You start it. You hold the end of it. The middle is just going to get done. I promise. I guarantee it. You don’t have to do that part. You can’t do that part. It’s not your job to do that part.
Christine: Our minds aren’t big enough to understand.
Brandon: Our jobs are so simple. You decide what you want. That’s the beginning. You feel what you want. That’s the end. You choose it to confirm and set your will in motion. The subconscious and the universe–whatever you want to call the thing–does all the rest. It’s really simple. We overcomplicate it. That’s the creative process.
Practically speaking, the creative process: You sit down for 5 minutes. You visualize, you affirm–I don’t really care what you do. Whatever you have to do to feel the energy or feel the feeling of having the goal at the end. Visualize, affirm, journal. Journaling’s a great method. Whatever you want to do, I don’t really care. You do it. A ritual, whatever.
You do it. That’s going to get you the feeling. You hold it for a few minutes. Any resistance that comes up, you let it go. That’s it. You want to purify that feeling.
How to Make the Feeling Pure
Brandon: Here’s really what I want to talk about, one of the big things I want to mention today. When you start feeling the endpoint of your goal, it’s not going to be 100% pure. What I mean by that is it’s going to be mixed with resistance. That’s okay. Don’t force it. It might be the strongest in the beginning. It’s going to be mixed with fear or whatever.
Here’s what you do. This is where mindfulness comes in. We’ll also talk about the reality control room later on. What you do, basically, is find that seed. It’s like finding a signal in static. Find that seed. Hold on to that feeling, no matter how little it is or how mixed with other emotions it is. Find it and focus on that vibrational signature. Not in a strong way. You don’t have to force it. Just focus on it. Let that be in your focus.
All the other stuff, which is resistance, you just don’t react to. Every time the subconscious says, “Yeah, but what about this?” you say, “I’m sitting here with the seed of my goal.” “But what about this?” “I’m still sitting here with this feeling.” No matter how small that feeling is at first (the bigger the goal, the less you’ll be able to access that feeling). When it’s really big, you can’t get it at all. You focus on that feeling, the vibrational signature, the seed, the goal. You sit with that. Everything else is just noise. You just let it go. You don’t jump from that feeling over to this other thought of fear. You don’t do that. You just sit here with the feeling.
What happens is, because you’re focusing on the feeling, everything else is going to die away. Eventually, what will be left is just 100% of the feeling. You might start with 10%, but as you focus on it and the subconscious mind hits you with fear after fear after fear and you don’t waver. (Sure, you might do so for a second, but you just come back to the feeling.) You focus on the feeling. The other stuff, because you’re not feeding it focus or emotion, just falls away.
This is the most important thing that I want to discuss. A lot of times when I say “mindfulness,” I’m talking about watching the negative feelings. I don’t want you to give any focus whatsoever to the negative feelings or negative thoughts. If they’re really powerful, sometimes you have to pause a second and say, “Hey, what’s up? I see you.” But all I want you to do is just focus on that vibrational signature. The rest will take care of itself. If you’re focusing in any way on those negative thoughts, in some way you’re validating them. I’m not saying to be afraid of them.
This is directly from my experience. What I used to do is take the goal, feel the feeling, then a resistant thought would come up. I would drop the goal, let the thought flow through, go back to the goal. More resistance would come up. The resistance would never stop because I would keep dropping the goal and going back to the resistance. I hope I’m explaining this well. I know it’s a little bit complicated.
Basically, what you’re doing is holding on to the feeling of your goal. (This is just in your 5-minute visualization or whatever.) You’re holding on to that feeling even if it’s 10% or 5% and focusing on that, keeping that in your sights. Everything else is just noise. The better you can do that, the faster that feeling will grow until it’s 100% of your consciousness. That’s your goal. Your ideal goal with any creative session is to have that feeling get to 100%. That doesn’t mean you’re done. That just means for now, your subconscious is done bringing up stuff.
That’s your goal in any creation session. It might not always get there, and that’s okay. As long as it’s growing, that’s the good news. Let’s say I want $50,000. I feel 15%. I start getting fears of how I’m going to get there. I have no way to get there. I don’t want to work more hours, whatever. I just keep focusing on what having $50,000 would feel like. What would it feel like if I had that? I don’t push away the thoughts. They’re just irrelevant to me. I don’t even look at them. I just keep focusing on that $50,000 and go deeper into that feeling until it’s 70, 80, 90% of my awareness. Then 100%, hopefully. Then I drop it and go back to the zero state.
That is the creation process in a nutshell. We’re sort of getting into the reality control room, but not entirely yet. We’ll get into that in a little bit. That’s the whole thing. I hope I explained that well. It’s very iffy because when I would say, “Just witness the thoughts; just let them go by,” people would drop the goal, focus on the negative thought, try not to react to it. It just wouldn’t really do it. I did a lot of experimentation with this where I would do both ways. The way of just holding on to the goal and letting the negative stuff be irrelevant as best as you can was the fastest way of manifesting that I found.
Justin: Just let it flow around you. I always thought of it as letting it flow around you as the sea or as water around a rock. The rock is you and you’re focusing on the thought.
The Debugging Part of the Process
Brandon: That’s the creation process. The debugging process I’ll cover quickly. It’s really just more of the same. What you’re going to have is throughout the day, don’t try to feel immensely good. Don’t try to do that. Just try not to feel miserable. [laughs] If negative thoughts come up, do the same sort of thing where they’re just irrelevant. Hold on to the feeling–not the goal feeling, necessarily–just, “I want to be happy right now.” If you get hit with intense resistance, enter the zero state, let the thoughts flow over you. Let them go. Go back into the zero state. That’s it. The subconscious mind will bring up more stuff later, probably. The debugging process is really just more of the same of how you’re letting those negative thoughts go.
Justin: You’re saying don’t necessarily focus on the goal. You want to just focus on having a higher vibration, being happy.
Brandon: Right. A good feeling, a peaceful feeling.
Justin: There’s your happy feeling, folks. Right there. That was it.
Brandon: It doesn’t have to be joy. It doesn’t have to be ecstasy.
Christine: Just have a good day.
Brandon: I just want to be content right now. These thoughts are trying to take that from me, so I’m just going to focus on peace and let the rest go.
Christine: That’s easier said than done, but it can be done.
Brandon: Yes, I know.
Justin: Yes, but you can do it.
Brandon: Sometimes you’ve got to lock down completely and do a full meditation and breathe and just let it flow over you and whatnot. Whatever you have to do, you have to do.
Justin: I’ve found sometimes in public, especially at work, you can’t always do that. You’ve got to lock down the fort. Let the thoughts batter at you for a bit. Then when you get to a spot, like I’ve gone outside or someplace and done that. Sometimes you just have to push them back until you can clear some space. Then you go to a spot and do all that. Don’t be afraid to do it.
Brandon: That’s debugging. The whole thing is really debugging because you’re always homing in on that vibrational signature, trying to get it to 100%, especially in the creation sessions. But in the debugging process throughout the rest of your day, when negative thoughts come up, just don’t engage. Don’t engage them. You can’t fight them. That just makes them stronger. Just let them be. Let them do their thing.
Mindfulness is really the name of the game here. Mindfulness is such a useful, versatile tool that is way underestimated and undervalued. Be mindful of the thoughts. Just hold on to your zero state, your peaceful state, and that’s it. As you do that, the subconscious mind will start to get the hint. “Oh, wait. I’ve hit him with all I have, with all these beliefs that I thought were important, but you’re not reacting. I guess they’re not so important.” They get weaker and weaker and weaker. That’s really how it all works.
What you’re doing, basically, is as you focus on the goal again and again and again and you get to 100% or close to it in your creation sessions, you’re building a neural pathway to your goal. I talked about this in the support call #36 a little bit. I think it was #36. You’re building a pathway to your goal. A neural pathway in your brain. You’re teaching yourself how to feel the goal and how to think about the goal. Once that’s done, then that will be reflected on the outside. The subconscious mind will create a pathway, like I described earlier. Every time you do that, you’re making that neural pathway a little bit stronger, a little bit stronger, a little bit stronger. The subconscious mind starts to get used to the idea. “Okay, maybe it’s not so bad.”
Your creation sessions are doing 2 things. #1, they are getting rid of that resistance that the subconscious mind is holding. #2, they are creating a neural pathway to the goal, teaching yourself how to think $50,000. You have to think $50,000 before you can live or have $50,000. Just taking that example. Whatever your goal is. You have to think it and feel it before you can have it. Just keep that in mind. You have to build that neural pathway before you can actually have it on the outside. That’s what your creation sessions are doing.
The debugging is really just, as the resistance comes up, you let it go. You’re doing more of the same as the first point. It’s just letting the subconscious know these beliefs aren’t important anymore. I get to choose how I feel. Don’t let this take over your life. It’s just a few minutes a day, and then if negative thoughts come up throughout the day, great. Just drop them. Good.
People get frustrated with resistance, but resistance is what’s blocking you from your goal. It’s actually good when it comes out because it means that you’re getting there, that you’re on the right path. If you weren’t on the right path, that resistance wouldn’t have come up. It means that you’re getting there, getting somewhere. When you let it go, it’s such a great feeling. When you let it go, then it’s like you’re that much closer. Resistance is actually a good thing. It’s not bad. It doesn’t mean you’ve failed. It doesn’t mean anything. It’s a good thing. It’s necessary so that you can struggle against that, have that tension, let it go, and be that much closer to your goal. Now, I’m going to talk about…[drumroll sound effect]
The Reality Control Room
Christine: The reality control room.
Brandon: [laughs] How’d you know?
Christine: I can read your mind.
Brandon: The reality control room. I described it a little bit before when I was describing the creation process. That’s that. What this is is really a way of focusing in on your goal and letting go of resistance at the same time. It’s deceptively simple, but it’s very powerful. It’s really worked well for me. I introduced earlier the idea of the seed of your goal. This is what you’re going to need. I introduced that idea of the seed, and I introduced the idea that when you hold a thought or a seed of energy, your subconscious mind tries to synch up with it. It tries to attune itself to it energetically. Those two ideas are the basis of the reality control room.
Essentially, what you’re doing is holding that seed and letting the subconscious mind make several attempts at synching up with it. As you hold that seed, it’s going to try to synch up with that energy. The first attempt is going to fail because it can’t get there, if it’s a next level goal. With each attempt, you teach it what to do by (guess) not reacting to it. You say try again. Well, not literally say it. I guess you could. Try again. It tries again. Another thought comes up, another attempt to synch up with the seed. It’s another failure. Not reacting, not taking the bait. Try again. As you do it, eventually you’re going to get a positive thought about your goal.
Let me give you an example. I’ll take this $50,000 example because I’m going to run to the end with it. [laughs] Let’s say I’m feeling that vibrational signature. Let’s say I have 25% of it. I really love that goal. It’s awesome. That’s my seed. I hold it. As I hold it, the subconscious mind says something like, “I don’t want to get promoted, though, because I don’t want to have the responsibilities of the manager.” That’s a negative thought.
You say, “Nice try. Not going with it. Just going to hold this seed and not take the bait of the other one.” That gets weaker because you rejected it. What you could do is a little bit of NLP if you want to. Step out of the negative thought. Make it smaller in your mind if it’s an image, whatever you want to do. If the thought’s an image in your mind (a negative thought), I imagine it as minimizing the window and throwing it out into space. It’s like, “No, I don’t want that thought.” If it’s an audible thought, just imagine it floating away and getting farther and farther away and softer and softer. If it’s a feeling, imagine it dispersing and not being important to you. Those are some simple NLP techniques. I discussed a lot more about NLP in the first “The Art of Reality Creation.” Those are some basic ways of doing that.
You hold on to the thought of $50,000 a year. Great. It says, “I don’t know. I don’t want to have those responsibilities.” You don’t argue with it. Do not argue with it. It won’t work. You can’t argue with it. Don’t say, “Yeah, well, I’m sure there are other ways,” or “It’s not as bad as it seems.” The subconscious mind doesn’t care what you think about it. It really doesn’t. It’s bringing up objections that are in alignment with your current subconscious structures.
What you do is ignore it. Or, if you need to, do the NLP stuff (minimize it, throw it out to space). You’re still holding on to the seed. You’re holding on to that for a few seconds, and then another thought comes up. “It’s too hard to make that amount of money. I can’t do it.” Do the same thing. Minimize that, throw it out to space, whatever. Christine’s miming it. [laughs]
Christine: Sorry.
Brandon: It’s all right. Ignore the thought, minimize it, throw it out, whatever you want to do. You can even visualize whatever you want. Imagine crumpling up a piece of paper and throwing it away. Whatever you want to do with it is fine. The wind takes it away, whatever. You bury it. I don’t care. Then, you keep holding the seed.
Then a thought comes up. It could be something really simple like, “That would be really cool, to make that much.” Okay, now what you do is say yes to that thought. You make it bigger if it’s an image. Make it louder if it’s an audio thing. Maximize the feeling. Imagine turning up the dial to 10 or something. Make that feeling stronger. Whatever it is, say yes to that thought. Make it bigger. Make it more bold. Step into it. Yes, it would be really cool to make $50,000 a year. Step into it. Then go back to the seed.
Generally, when you get the positive thought, the seed’s going to grow. It’s going to be maybe 35% or 40% or whatever. Maybe you get another negative thought. That’s okay. You do the same thing: minimize it, throw it away, or just ignore it.
Basically, what you’re doing is in real time training your subconscious mind how you want to think. When it gives you something you don’t like, you say, “No, I don’t want that. Cut that out. Cut it.” And it goes. When it gives you something you want, you say, “Yes, I want that.” You make it bigger and bolder. You keep it. You step into it. You go deeper into it. You’re teaching your subconscious mind through your emotions how to think about this goal.
When you have those positive thoughts, really, really feel those emotions. Turn them up to 100%. 1000%. Turn them up. Really feel those emotions. Don’t force it, but turn them up. When you get a negative thought (which you will), just let it go off into space.
That’s the reality control room. I call it that because it’s your editing space. This is where you edit your subconscious mind’s thoughts about your goal. You say, “Okay, how do I feel about making $50,000 a year? Well, I have these negative thoughts. That’s fine. I’m going to toss that away. But then I have this positive thought. Oh, look, that’s awesome! I keep that. I step into it.”
I imagine it like when people take a whole ton of photos, and they go through them really fast. “Keep that. Oh, I don’t like that one. Yes, keep that one. Keep that one. No, I don’t like that one.” You’re very fast-paced in deciding what to keep and what to toss away. You’re just saying, “Yes, I want this photo. I don’t want that photo. I want this photo.” That’s what it reminds me of. You have this slide of images going by in your mind, and you’re deciding which ones you want to keep and which ones you don’t. That’s how the reality control room works.
Essentially, you are taking the seed (the vibrational signature, the feeling of having it) of your goal and focusing on it. Every time you focus on it, your subconscious mind tries to synch up with it. It’s going to bring up a thought. It could be a negative thought or a positive thought. It could be slightly negative, slightly positive, very negative, or very positive. If it’s a negative one, you just discard it.
Justin: Discard it or allow it to dissipate. Do any number of things.
Brandon: Exactly. Just let it go. Minimize it. You’re keeping the seed. It brings up another thought. That one could be positive. You say yes to it. As you do that, it’s very powerful in a very short amount of time. That feeling is going to be growing and growing and growing. You’re basically very quickly and efficiently teaching your subconscious mind how to think about this goal.
That is what I’ve been using for manifesting. It’s been very, very powerful and very effective when working towards any goal. You really have to be choosy with your thoughts. If you don’t like the thought, don’t feel obligated to keep it. It’s like one of those pictures. Just don’t keep the picture. If you don’t like it, delete it. Do you ever go through your phone and just delete pictures you don’t like? It’s like that. Just delete it. Delete that thought. Don’t fight it. Don’t resist it. Delete it. Let it go. Come back to your feeling. That’s your seed.
Why I say it’s a seed is because it’s generating thoughts. Some thoughts you’ll like, and some thoughts you won’t. The thoughts you like, you emphasize. The thoughts you don’t, you just delete. You let them go. As you do that, the subconscious structures are getting generated. They’re forming into more of what you want very, very quickly. I think this is why I’ve gotten really, really quick results lately. This process, on a very raw, low level, interacts with the subconscious mind. It speaks the language of the subconscious and tells it exactly how it should be thinking. That is how this basically works. Does it make sense how I’m explaining it? I know it’s a little bit of NLP. What did you say, Justin?
Justin: That works really well. It makes sense to me. That’s actually kind of how I use my process. Maybe not exactly like that. I always tried to keep as much focus on the goal as I could. I didn’t quite interact as much with the negative parts of the energy, per se. I will definitely focus more on that. I usually use straight mindfulness, but I kind of like also tossing the thoughts away. Really being choosy about the negative thoughts and positive thoughts. I actually am going to try parse the thoughts out rather than just go into the flow and the energy and having the positive going and the negatives parse them out. I’m going to actually choose the positives more. I like that.
Brandon: It’s just being very picky about your thoughts. As you do that, you’re training your subconscious mind. You’re programming it. It’s literally like opening up a shell and programming. [laughs]
Justin: That’s really neat, that you actually choose the thoughts. I’m going to be more choosy about it like a programmer.
Brandon: Exactly. It’s like a programmer deletes a line of code you don’t like or fix it. Add a new one, whatever. It’s the reality control room because you’re controlling your reality through this very directly, by manipulating how your subconscious mind structures it, how it thinks about it. Then that will show up on the outside.
Simple and Effective
Brandon: In the first course, we went through a ton of detail. That’s great. If you want detail, go back to that course. But it’s sort of superfluous, too. I’m just trying to simplify it here. Really, all you need is this. The creation process–that few minutes a day when you are focusing on your goal–is just the process of being really choosy about your thoughts. Going down and holding that seed or vibrational signature. Letting the subconscious mind try to synch up with it. Letting it fail. Letting go of the negative thought that comes up. Deleting it. Throwing it away. You still hold the seed, so it tries again and tries again and tries again. Then you get a thought you like, and you say yes.
That’s how I got the SSI thing. I could not imagine it at first. I held the seed and got maybe 2%. I just held what I had. I got a whole bunch of negative thoughts. “How am I going to do that? The business can’t grow that much.” (I didn’t know anything about a job yet.) “The business can’t grow that much that quickly. What am I going to do? I can’t do it.” Deleted all those. Then a thought came up. “Wouldn’t that be nice? Wouldn’t that be freeing to be off of SSI?” And I said yes to that thought. It got a bit bigger. That really kicked off the momentum. It’s very, very powerful.
You’re just being really picky about your thoughts and saying yes to the ones that support what you want and saying no (and when I say “Say no” I’m not saying fight it, I’m just saying say no to it by not giving it focus) to the ones you don’t like. That’s the creative process. That seed grows. Hopefully, within a session, it gets to 100%. If it doesn’t, that’s okay. As long as it grows. As long as you get more of it by the end, that’s great. That means you’ve made progress. Then, throughout the day, if stuff comes up, you say, “Okay, I see you, thoughts, but I’m not going to take the bait. I’m not going to take it.” You can do this anytime, but the creative process is a deeper, more direct way. If negative thoughts come up throughout the day, you can say, “No, I’m not doing that.” You can also minimize those or throw those away or just be mindful of them and let them go.
Justin: Become the sky like you said. I like that one. Let them flow right through you.
Brandon: That’s the debugging. It all merges in together. It’s a very simple process. I’m trying to simplify all this because you don’t need a lot of complex stuff. If you want to do ritual, do ritual. If you want to do visualization, do visualization. If you want to journal, then journal. This is magic. You are at the start. You are holding the end of the path by feeling and emotion. The rest will fill in with the subconscious mind. That is really how all this works.
People will say, “What about resistance?” Again, I’m not saying this is easy. Use mindfulness. Allow or minimize those thoughts. Manipulate them with NLP. That’s all it is. It does take work. I know it’s easier said than done. I get that. Just practice. This is the way to the fastest manifestations you could possibly have because you’re directly interacting with (I guess you could say….My job is interfering) the “source code” of your reality. [laughs] You’re directly interacting with it and changing it and making improvements to it. That’s what you’re doing. Simple, but it’s also kind of difficult until you get used to it. I guarantee you, if you follow this process, you’ll have very, very fast manifestations if you hold to it truly and don’t take the bait of those negative thoughts.
Justin: The only thing I was curious about is….We talked about ritual a little bit. If you build up all that power in a ritual, how many or how often do you work with the energy on the small law of attraction scale?
Brandon: If you do a ritual, do it once every few weeks. See how it feels, really. If you want to do it every day of that week still, fine. If you just want to check up on the energy a little bit and wait a few days, that’s okay, too. Whatever you want to do is fine. Feel out the energy is really the big thing. It will make a huge amount of progress very quickly. If you want to wait a few days (3 days later, 4 days later) and check in with the visualization and see if it’s any easier, whatever. It’s fine.
Instead of Constantly Seeking, Apply What You Have
Brandon: That’s the process. It’s very simple. Don’t overcomplicate this stuff. It’s very simple. It just requires practice. I remember what my instructor from the “Hypnosis and the Law of Attraction” course told us: You can go and read a million different books, but it’s not going to help you any more than just applying the stuff you have. Don’t try to learn a whole bunch of different stuff or take a bunch of different courses. Just apply it. This is the stuff you need.
Christine: It’s like you’re trying to find what you want to hear instead of….What fits right? Guess what, people. You’re going to be uncomfortable, so just suck it up and do it.
Brandon: Right. Just practice it. I’m not saying it’s super easy, but this is the direct way.
Christine: No, it can be painful. But you don’t want light and fluffy.
Justin: This is straight up how to do it.
Brandon: Exactly. Don’t waste time. If you want to out of curiosity, but a lot of people just go from book to book to book to book.
Justin: Yes, you don’t need to do that.
Brandon: Site to site to site. Or course to course to course.
Christine: It’s right in front of your face.
Brandon: Just apply the method. I promise it will work. Ask questions if you have them. You have lifetime access to this course, so ask questions in the comments anytime. Or email me if you want to. I prefer comments if it’s public, but if it’s personal, then whatever. You have access to this, so use it. If you have questions, ask. I think that does actually complete the class. I don’t want to overcomplicate things. I had a lot of other ideas for things I could do, but this is just very simple. This is it.
Christine: Simple is better. Keep it simple, stupid. Have you ever heard that?
Justin: You can read all these other books. You get all these other techniques, and then they get blended together. My thing is, pick one style and work with it. See if it works for you. This is a great style. It’s simple. That’s why I stuck with Wayne Dyer for a while. That worked. You find something that works. This actually is straight up how the energy works. Straight up. What you all just heard.
Brandon: I hope that makes sense to everyone. If you have questions, just let me know. Comment on the class. Otherwise, I hope that this helps everyone and that you get to apply it. I want to hear about your successes or struggles or whatever you have. Hopefully you have a lot of successes.
Christine: Yes. Oh, you will.
Justin: Yes, you will.
Brandon: [laughs] Definitely if you apply it, you’ll have the successes. It’s just about applying it. [laughs]
Christine: That’s the hard part.
Brandon: That’s it. Thanks, everyone, for joining us. Hopefully we’ll see you in the comments. Bye, everyone.
Christine: Have a great one. Bye!
Justin: Bye.
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First of all, I love the idea of the reality control room and that’s absolutely going to be something I use from now on. I also appreciate the clarification that the creative process is just a tiny chunk out of the day and the rest is debugging. For some reason having labels to put on what I’m doing over the course of the day is helpful.
Going off of that … I admit I am like offender number one when it comes to spending my day visualizing. I like to feel like I’m doing something, I have a lot of energy, and I do not take no for an answer. A friend recently told me that I’m the most intense person they’ve ever come across, and that myself and everyone around me would benefit if I maybe gave 50% instead of 200% more often. ? I feel like that’s applicable here. That being said … I’ve had an inclination towards refraining from visualization sessions for the next couple days. I’m at a point where my goal feels normal, I’m hitting no resistance when I visualize and very little resistance throughout the day, and I assume I have built up quite a lot of energy that needs to just be free for a while. I aimed to have this goal by the end of the month and we’ve got about 3 days until then. I haven’t seen any movement but I’ve been putting an awful lot of work in, so I feel like I’d be pretty safe in leaving the energy completely alone for a day or two at least. If that seems like poor logic, definitely let me know.
If I can manage to make premium membership work out so I can join support calls, I’d be interested in a discussion on what to do when something that was a current level goal suddenly becomes a next level goal. I know it’s all the same basic concepts, but I think a lot of people come to LOA not just because they want something, but because they’ve lost something. So much of this process for me has been realizing that something changed, subconsciously, and flipping that switch again requires effort. But it’s also a big reason that I refuse to give up; I’ve had this before. And now I have the tools to have it again and envision it even better.
Thanks @Chaucer. I’m glad you enjoyed the class, and especially the reality control room.
Yeah I think it’s beneficial to release energy for a while. I’m not the best at it, either, but it is really only when you’re looking the other way, so to speak, that the manifestation happens. It never happens directly.
We’d love to have you in the premium membership and the support calls. 🙂
Hi Brandon,
I like your technique for focusing on the seed/essence and discarding the worries and doubts that arise. I’ve just begun using it, and when I visualize, I’m able to better focus on the emotion of my goals.
I’m feeling quite worried right now, because I’ve been focusing on my moving goal for what will be 3 months at the end of this month, and I still haven’t seen physical results. Any action I’ve taken hasn’t yielded results, and there haven’t been any other opportunities that have come up. Very recently, I even went a little more general with the goal in a way that still feels good (not like a let down) but opens up some other paths that may be less resistant than the one I originally thought of. All this time I’ve been spending a lot of time clearing resistance that arises during the day, so I feel concerned about not seeing the results with this goal.
I guess I’m just not sure where I’ve gone wrong. I’ve done my daily visualization/journaling sessions daily (except for a few days off here and there) and have been bringing myself back to focusing on what I want when resistance comes up. The goal has definitely stretched, challenged and scared me, but it’s become more comfortable with time. I don’t think I’m being impatient, as I’ve given myself a full 3 months with this goal. I’m quite surprised to not be seeing the results I was expecting, because I have spent a lot of time acclimating to this goal.
I will say this: it is crazy how much my old financial goals have reprogrammed my subconscious mind! Money has come in some very uncanny ways this month to meet the same amount that I received last month and in February. I haven’t set financial goals for either this month or March, so this amount I’ve been receiving must be because of a successfully established program. Some of the ways money has come are actually kind of funny and really show how the heavens and earth will move to meet your expectation! lol
I haven’t really done anything to make any of the money show up, except act when the opportunities arise. In many cases though, I didn’t have to do anything! It’s amazing how powerful our norms are.
Hi @R,
Thanks for the comment. I’m glad you enjoyed the class.
Let me ask this question: if you were to compare your moving goal to your money goal, how would they differ? The money goal has been successful, while the moving goal has not. If you had to guess, why would that be?
When you talk about your moving goal, I honestly don’t feel a lot of energy. I feel like you’re drudging along trying to manifest the goal, trying to clear resistance, etc. We can get stuck in this limbo of just working through resistance, working through resistance, working through resistance… but never quite getting anywhere.
Notice how in this class, I told you to stop focusing on the resistance. Stop trying to do anything with it. Stop trying to clear it.
Focus on the goal. Feel excited about it. Choose it. Don’t expect it to be way off in the future. See it in your mind as happening yesterday. We had a good discussion about this in the Spiritual Freedom Support Call #37.
Don’t bother with resistance. Let it roll off of you while you focus on your goal.
Hi Brandon,
I notice that the main difference is that with the money goal, I didn’t stress about it as much and didn’t even focus on it as intensely or as often. I didn’t make it a life or death type situation. If I didn’t get it, it wouldn’t have been the end of the world.
There were times when I was actively focusing on my money goal when I would feel stress, and sometimes it could be very intense. I would still say that overall though, these goals felt less important to me. I didn’t have to try as hard with them and wasn’t as attached to them.
I feel really frustrated with my moving goal, because I’ve put so much effort into it, yet haven’t seen the results I expected. With my money goals, I didn’t think about them as much when I was actively working on them. Still now, I barely think about them, other than the occasional thought of “I wonder how the Universe will deliver this money to me”. Sometimes I would doubt, but I easily went back to trusting, feeling neutral about them or just not thinking about them at all.
I’ve definitely been working more on clearing resistance with my moving goal, and maybe that’s where I’ve gone wrong. I was more trusting with my money goal and wasn’t trying too hard to make them happen, because I trusted that I would be presented with the way and just had to follow it when it came. With my moving goal, my mind wants to get more involved with the how’s before they become clear.
There is definitely more of a sense of struggle and force with my moving goal, like I’m trying too hard. Perhaps this is also where I’m going wrong.
Hi @R,
Okay, I sense you going a bit in the other direction, which is very common for LOA practitioners.
Here’s what I mean: You seem to be thinking that since you were more detached with the money goal, it came more quickly.
But in reality I suspect it was a good bit lower on the GDS (goal difficulty scale) than is your moving goal. Your subconscious structures are much closer to supporting the money goal than the moving goal. So indeed you can just let go and it’ll happen.
But as we know that doesn’t work with bigger goals. A time of relative stress / tension has to occur first, to force the subconscious structures to regenerate and support something higher.
I suspect what’s going on is that you’re simply getting caught up in the minutiae of the goal: how it’ll happen, when it’ll happen, how much resistance you have, etc.
Frustration of course will only lead to more frustration.
Try what I said above with not focusing on the resistance so much, and see what happens from there.
Hi @Brandon,
Yes, that’s true, my money goals were all lower on the GDS! And I’m guessing this is also why they manifest easily now without my conscious focus. Because my moving goal felt/feels bigger for me, I set it for three months instead of one.
I am caught up in the minutiae of the goal. So what I should do is just focus on the goal itself in spite of the resistance? Just brush it off to the side when it comes up and focus on the seed of the goal, as you mention in the recording?
My desire for this goal is strong, and I’ve definitely been struggling much more with it than with my money goals. The period of tension/stress has also been much longer than with my money goals. As I mentioned before, I did experience some doubt and anxiety with those too, but to a lesser extent than with this goal. It feels like the biggest challenge with my moving goal is not getting caught up in the how.
Hi @R,
Yep exactly. Just focus on the seed of the goal and let everything else flow away. It takes practice but it’s possible.
@Brandon Sometimes just imagining throwing the resistant thoughts away helps, though it can be challenging to do each time I visualize or journal. I’ll have to practice more. I don’t know if I’ve recently become too general about my goal, but I find it a bit easier to focus on the essence this way.
@Brandon Something else I forgot to mention: I feel that one of the reasons my money goals were easier to manifest were because I was much less specific about certain details. I just the goal to manifest a certain amount of money easily and in a good feeling way by the end of the month. Each month, the ways the money has come have varied, but all have felt good and easy and didn’t require much effort from me.
With my moving goal, I’ve been envisioning moving in one specific city, because it seems like the easiest place to get to in the area I want to live in. In reality though, I would probably be happy in many cities in the general region with similar features. I also imagined quite specific way of moving to this place, because it seemed like the most logical path my mind could come up with.
A few days ago, I realized that being so specific was probably holding me back, because there could be an easier and better way for me to move to the area I want to live in. It’s just that I’m not aware of it right now. This realization was strenthend when yesterday, I manifested some more money in a very random and unexpected way. This manifestation showed me that the end result is of primary importance. There isn’t much use in obsessing over details about how a goal will happen; because who really cares about how as long as you get what you want in a way that feels good?
Sorry if I contradict myself a lot in my comments! I keep receiving new insights, as well as come up against new patches of resistance.
Hi @R,
Nope, makes sense to me. 🙂 I agree about not being too specific with things you don’t care so much about. You just have to find a way to get your mind out of the hows of it.
I really liked this class Brandon. I was surprised that you said you never did ten minutes of focusing on the goal. I think I’m going to only do five or six or whatever feels natural from now on. Doing it for longer probably does more harm than good, as it feels forced and unauthentic to do it for ten minutes. I liked everything you said about retraining the subconscious mind. How your subconscious mind wants to return to homeostasis, and how you have to communicate to your subconscious via emotions about what is really important, the goal or the norm. It made a lot of sense. Hopefully the techniques in this work for me; I’ll have to give it a shot and see what happens.
Glad you enjoyed it @Natasha. The techniques have been very useful for me, so I’m happy to pass them on. 🙂 Let me know how it works out.
hi Brandon. this makes a lot of sense. i am going to put on my big girl panties and do this process lol.
by the way Christine, your hubby has a very handsome voice:)
thanks so much for this class.
Hi marinabers, thanks so much. I’m glad you enjoyed the class and the processes.
And I’ll tell Christine what you said. 🙂
I did my best to lay off focusing on my goal today, and midway through the day, I got what I can only call a manifestation of current reality. I tried to let it go because I was in the middle of a project and couldn’t easily leave, but I ended up in a low-level anxiety spiral and ended up having to excuse myself. Mindfulness was not working to detach from the anxiety. I just couldn’t snap into a meditative state. Eventually I just told myself, “Stop it. This is not the reality you’re trying to create.” I don’t know why, but that worked immediately. I’ve just been dealing with tension off and on since then.
I don’t know if that means that I’ve been too focused on current reality, or if it’s because the tension has been ramping up as we approach the end of the month (which is when I’d hoped to have my goal). Maybe the “why” is unimportant. I honestly haven’t thought on it too much because that resistance is gone now and I’d really rather not manifest more of it.
I’m sorry to hear about the anxiety. It does happen sometimes. I would suggest very gently bringing up that situation again and see if the resistance is still there. It sounds to me like you repressed the resistance, not truly let it go.
I have gone back through a few things I thought might be causing resistance, and at this point they don’t really trigger an emotional reaction. Other than working through the resistance that manifestation brought up, i’m not really running into anything else. Right now I’m just sort of confused. At this point I don’t know if I’ve been inadvertently doing things so incorrectly that it’s going to take ages to correct, or if I need to just keep pushing onward, or if there’s just one little thing I’m doing wrong. Maybe I focused too much on the tension and not enough on the goal. I was giving myself until the end of the month to get my goal and here we are on the 30th …
Maybe I’ll just stick to it and let this deadline trigger any frustration I have. See what happens by the end of the day.
Hi @Chaucer,
Have you considered a coaching session? It might help you to pinpoint exactly what’s going on in your energy. I try to help as much as I can here, but a session is more direct.
It’s worth considering … my financial situation is a little up in the air until I actually start my new job in 2 weeks.
I guess I’m mostly at the end of my rope because I managed to manifest spectacularly horrible situation and I don’t know why I’m having difficulties manifesting something spectacularly good. And now for an entire month when I’ve been putting so much effort in, I’ve yet to see any part of my goal manifest. I do know it’s an issue with me and not with the principles. Sorry for the rant … My brain is pretty fried today.
Definitely thinking coaching is a good way to go at this point. The resistance that came up for me today was stuff I had no idea was still an issue. Some of it is fear/doubt around obtaining my goal, the rest of it is much, much older programming around my wants being low-priority. So, this is resistance I’m going to have to actually focus on. The fear and doubt is just sort of general; it isn’t tied to fear of a specific outcome. I think I need to just tie thoughts about my goal to a more positive outlook. Just get it through my head that if I expect a positive outcome, that’s the only outcome I’m allowing in my reality.
The older subconscious programming, though, is so ingrained that when it came up, it was the same as saying the sky is blue. There’s no immediate emotion tied to it, so all I can think is that I need to tell myself something different and pick an emotion to go along with that affirmation (self-confidence). I’m reading some of your older posts to get an idea of how to deal with this.
Frustrating to still be running into resistance after this long, but I feel much better now than I did earlier, and I caught this before it manifested something bad. So that’s something.
Hi @Chaucer,
I’m glad you’re interested in coaching. I’m sorry you’re going through this resistance, though. I know it can be difficult for sure.
Feel free to email me at brandon@playofinfinity.org to let me know the details of the coaching you’re interested in. I now offer either 30-minute or 60-minute sessions.
I was going to tack this on to my last post, but I think it warrants its own separate comment tree. Hopefully I’m not overwhelming you with a deluge of comments and questions. I appreciate you taking the time to respond to everyone!
I’ve been meaning to ask some questions regarding creative tension. I’m struggling with the best way to phrase this, because I think that I’ve finally got this figured out, but I’d like to talk through it to make sure and also because creative tension seems to be a sticking point for a number of people. I think the general question would be, How do we balance tension with focus (especially as it relates to choosing our goal in the face of resistance)?
In the past, I’ve found that tension has a tendency to devolve into frustration or anxiety if I give the tension my focus. So I get into this weird cycle where I choose my goal, get tension, focus on tension, feel anxious, choose my goal in the face of that anxiety … and repeat. If I allow the tension to sit in the background, it just feels like when I have something big on my to-do list and I haven’t done it yet.
I think the best answer I’ve come up with thus far is that tension gets your focus when you’re actively trying to lessen the tension. It’s supposed to be a tool for forcing the hand of your subconscious mind, so let your subconscious deal with it. That can be tough to accept because the tension that pushes us to complete daily tasks is very active. You know you need to go get groceries, so you go get groceries. The tension that drives subconscious structure change is something you don’t necessarily act on. It’s driving change under the surface and it almost feels wrong to let tension sit there and not jump up and do something.
I hope that wasn’t too much of a mess. It’s sort of untangling a few things that have been sticking points for me, personally.
Hi @Chaucer,
Very good question. It’s a very sensitive balance, and difficult to adjust to, I know.
Your mistake I think is focusing on the tension. What you focus on, grows. Don’t focus on it, as I said in the class. Focus on the goal. The tension will be a natural outgrowth of focusing on that goal and not having it yet. As you suggested, just let it be in the background.
Yes there is a very strong inclination to try to get rid of that tension. Don’t. Just let it be. Without focus on it, it’ll do its own thing. The subconscious mind will find a way to resolve it.
Focus on the goal. Let the goal be everything.
I hope that makes sense.
If you are working on, say, 3 monthly goals, then what is the best way for managing them with the reality control room? Would you do 3 separate 5-minute reality control room creation times each day? Or would you combine them all into the same 5 minutes?
Also, I’m finding it difficult to handle the structural tension at the end of the month when the deadline is closer and not much progress has been made. With money goals, it never mattered much, because I could always figure lots of different things could happen at the last minute that would satisfy my money goal. So I could handle a lot of strong structural tension at the end of the month. With weight loss, it’s a lot harder. If I set a 5-lb weight loss goal for the month, that’s a reasonable number at the beginning of the month. If I get towards the end of the month and no weight loss has happened, then I have a lot of trouble believing that I could lose 5 lbs in only a few days. In fact, usually at that point I don’t even want to, because it’s hard for me to believe that I could lose 5 lbs that fast in a healthy way. Should I give up on the structural tension if I’m close to the end of the month and not any closer to my goal? At this point, if I’m close to the end of the month and I’m not any closer to my goal weight, I just give up on this month and change the intention for next month instead. I don’t know if that is unnecessarily weakening things, though.
Hey @Lisa,
Honestly I’d stop making it a monthly goal. Don’t set a timeframe for now. If you keep setting the monthly goal, and keep failing at it… well, your subconscious will start to not take it so seriously I think.
So just hold the vision in mind of some small goal you can imagine. Say 5 or 10 lb. less. Hold that tension, but don’t put a timeframe on it.
Hi again @Brandon,
This is quite similar to Chaucer’s question, but I’ll go ahead and ask anyway.
Now that I’ve made my moving goal a bit more general and open, it’s easier to believe in. I can let go of it during the day and not think about it too much. I’m afraid though that the tension has decreased and that because I’m less stressed about it, it won’t manifest. How do you recreate the pressure and tension while maintaining a believable goal?
Hi @R,
Good question.
Stress isn’t the same as tension. It’s such a hard point to explain, but they are different.
Tension is just the unresolved knowing that you don’t have what you want yet. Your goal is not to want it less, or anything like that. It’s just to not worry about it.
When you visualize your goal, just see yourself having it. See it in big, bold images. Make it as real as possible to you.
Hi @Brandon,
Thanks for your explanation.
A few days ago, a really big (I didn’t even know how big this was for me) patch of resistance came up and has been on my mind ever since. Not only does it strongly relate to my moving goal, but also to my other goals and how I see myself in general.
At first, I thought that because this issue came up, that I’m going backwards, but now I assume it’s a good thing that I’m aware of it because I didn’t realize how strongly it affected me. It’s been difficult to really stay focused on my goals since thinking of this deep rooted resistance, and sometimes I really doubt them.
It’s strange how something so ugly and hidden has arisen since focusing on my goals. I had been feeling determined and confident, but now I’m feeling a lot of doubt about what I can manifest, the nature of people, who I am and what I should/am allowed to want.
@Brandon I really tried hard to not give it attention and focus on my goal instead, but this is something really deep and painful that kept coming back up over and over again. I’ve spent so much time feeling terrible and crying lately because of this. It’s just a really deep seated issue, a source of deep pain that had been lurking beneath the surface but I wasn’t conscious of.
Hi @r,
I’m sorry about responding so late. Been hectic.
Goals do exactly this. They bring up exactly those issues that are blocking us from what we want. So obviously this issue is standing in the way for you, and you must work through it. That is okay. Take some time and do that, and you’ll be that much closer.
It doesn’t mean you’re regressing. It means that you’re on the path to achieving it.
Hey @Brandon,
No worries! I imagine you must be busy with work and other things.
I was really afraid when this specific issue came up, because it seemed(s) very difficult to get through. It really has shaken me up and distracted me from my strong focus, but I’m beginning to get back of track again. The last few days have been full of purging.
I remember Melody writing a lot about how resistance will arise when we’re moving towards our desires, so I was curious to hear what you had to say. I’m still working through this issue, uncovering old beliefs and ideas that I didn’t even realize I carried! It feels like I’m going backwards, but I’m going to trust that I’m moving towards my goal. The road can be bumpy, but then again, I know I will come out stronger on the other side and be much closer.
Hi @R,
Resistance is always a good sign. I’d be worried if you had a big goal and didn’t experience resistance.
I had that a lot when I first started my job. It was a new identity to get used to. We had more money in the bank than we literally ever have for an extended period of time. I know that seems trivial, but it really brought up pretty deeply hidden beliefs I didn’t quite realize I had.
Now it’s just about normal. I love my job. The number in the bank has become just part of life. I look forward to where the future leads.
So you’ll get through it. Even when it’s really deep stuff coming up, that’s a wonderful sign. It means that this goal hit on something big buried deep in your subconscious. That’s okay. As I told someone else earlier today, it’s an ultimatum of sorts by your subconscious. It’s either the goal, or this buried belief. If you drop the goal and fear the thoughts that arise, you tell the subconscious that they have more power, and that they are more important, than the goal. If you hang on to the goal, then your subconscious mind knows that this, in fact, is more important.
Thank you for further explaining @Brandon. Since this resistance has hit me intensely, I’m having more difficulty really focusing on my goals when I visualize them. The resistance makes its way into my visualizations, but I do my best to discard those thoughts and bring my mind back to what I want. Sometimes I doubt if it’s working though.
I figure that the resistance has been suppressed for so long, that it’s coming up in such a big way because it’s been an unconscious block to my goals. I just didn’t realize that forward movement towards them could be so uncomfortable and difficult.
As the deeply buried resistance has come to light, I’ve been doubting whether it’s even ok for me to want certain things, as well as my ability and worthiness to receive them. Not that I didn’t have these doubts before, but they have been much more intense lately. I’m not giving up though, as difficult as it may be to focus at times and allow myself receive what I want.
Hi @R,
You’ll get through it okay. 🙂 I know it’s hard, but when you keep hanging on to the goal, the resistance will eventually pass.
Thanks for your reassurance @Brandon 🙂
Hi brandon. Read everything in a couple of hours and I knew you were the right person to teach this from the first article I read! You’re really relatable and answered all the holes in the process I’ve had for years in a matter of articles. So thank you for that!
I just wanted to know if it’s okay to be manifesting two big goals at the same time – for me it’s getting accepted into a program from the waitlist and the well being of a current relationship. How would you go about dividing the time/ energy to focus on both?
I also feel like when I “give up” and stop caring about the outcome of our relationship, things tend to get better for us. Would you just say that’s just me finally letting go and not obsessing? That sounds obvious but my thought process for that is always “I don’t care about him anymore. He can do whatever, I’m over figuring us out. I give up”. How does that play into things and how can I incorporate that without needing to reach that point for things to happen…
Thank you in advance.
Hi @Rhonstrong,
Thanks so much for your comment. 🙂
Yes you can definitely have a few big goals, though I’d set the maximum at 2. Next level goals take a lot of energy, so it’s hard to do several at once.
But just do your techniques for each goal. Spend about 5-10 minutes focusing on each goal separately.
Regarding giving up, yeah that’s a tough one. It’s indeed useful to let go to some extent, but you can get a lot more done if you can let go just enough that you’re not obsessing, but not so much that you say, “I don’t care.” The latter will tend to get you some immediate results, but it won’t really solve anything in the long-run.
I hope that helps.