To Think What You Want to Think

“To think what you want to think is to think truth, regardless of appearances.”- Wallace Wattles

Our mind is a powerful tool. One that focuses our attention and creates a physical response throughout the body, creating an emotion based on the mental focus. This emotion creates a way of being and acting based on the focus and changes our interaction with the outer world.

But on a deeper level, it could not only be changing you but also creating reality around you. Many of us have this general concept but we often are very lax about our mental and emotional state. We let so many things run through our mind that we certainly wouldn’t wish to create. To some degree this is fine because trying to control every thought borders on neurosis and is stressful in and of itself. But to direct the general trend of thought is empowerment.

Often we are enslaved to our mental habits that mostly form in childhood and in major life events. We want to believe what we wish to be true but the habits of the past hold us in their grip. That is, of course, until you fully realize it is a habit and one that can be changed . In becoming aware of that our world changes with it.

We often hear this idea in many spiritual and self help books but why are we still giving full power to so many unwanted thoughts and beliefs and holding them as true?

One reason is that the idea of looking at the world in the way we wish to see it has been so frowned upon, one in which is considered naive or even reckless. Looking at the world through a preferred lens could even be titled denial or avoidance.

We have a deep mistrust of want and desire, one programmed in as selfish, bad and a spiritual distraction.

What if it wasnt? What if the way in which we wish to see things is a guide to our own higher truth?

Now, I can hear my own doubting mind and many others rebuttals '“What if I want to think I can fly? I wouldn’t really be able to fly, now would I?”

To that I would ask you to remember the Wright brothers. I am sure it was a desire to fly that created air crafts even if the desire or dream was to just float away from the earth with just your body, in an attempt at realizing that truth, new ideas are formed.

You could say the desire to fly without any assistance wasn’t achieved by the Wright brothers or anyone else for that matter but that isn’t the point.

The truth behind our desires is not to hold them to one specific form but to let the be created through us, not through forcing the outer world or manipulating reality but through a creative and intuitive process. The way we perceive a desire in any one moment is just a translation of an idea not the fullest expression of it. We are constantly letting in more aspects of the desire and finding new ways to bring it to life.

Beliefs about desires change all the time, but the momentum forward in life is the ever expanding truth of that desire.

For example, a young highschool version of me may look over at a cute class mate who I have never spoken to and want very much for us to be married for all eternity. I could spend many hours fantasizing this until some wise person tells me it’s unlikely to which I would respond that they were in fact ignorant and would state that I would be Mrs. Shane still need to figure out his last name. I could say after the fact that didn’t come true and I believed it as true so why didn’t it work then?

In the moment of my fantasy, however, it was true, energetically I lived it and any moment before getting to know him his glance was the feeling of everlasting love. But as my physical reality caught up to my vision, it turns out “Shane” was very immature he was not the match to my vision. This of course goes on to the next seemingly perfect boy to man and eventually to a possibility of feeling jaded. These scenarios and ones of similar arcs, whether with career, art, passions or money have us all thinking either we cant create our desires or they must be wrong for us.

The truth may be in fact that it’s not the desire but the resolve that is off. It is true that we must let our desires evolve, to change in to a new focus as we learn more about our selves’ and life but what often happens is we let the narrative of what is become more dominant that what we want to create. We see the heartbreak and hold that more strongly than that love story. The other truth is that moments of these visions have happened. A love filled connection that seems like the stuff of dreams, a windfall of money, a creative story written to perfection all show up at some point. But when the vision wavers to one of disappointment we assume it was all a fluke or throw it out as a delusion.

But in those moments you lived it. Your perception of something else unwanted took your belief and created itself. Instead of seeing new content as something to work with to add to your creation, you see it as wrong or the proof that your desires are foolish. But if you started to look at everything as on the path to creating your desires or a part of the manifestation of them you would see them as wanted and they would then unfold more of your truth.

Thinking what you want is not denial or avoidance. Because both of those would involve thinking and believing something else and trying to resist that with another story. This is typically a stress state of fear masked as positivity and it feels very different from actually perceiving something from a loving light of truth.

For example, you could be in an argument with someone and have offended them and wish to be someone that didn’t, and from a place of denial respond to their request of an apology with a refusal to admit any error and claim kindness all while feeling guilt and fear of unworthiness within. But to truly move that towards truth you would see yourself and know yourself as kind, you would express kindness and sincerity in apologizing but also in compassion for the moment that occurred for both of you, what ever did occur would be felt from this lens and you would feel free and they may reflect that back at you. Your desire and acceptance of being kind moves the situation towards the intention and does not need to avoid.

This may all sound a bit abstract or complicated but I share all of this to invite you to say, what would you want it to be? What would you like to think about something? What would you want to be possible? Then sit with it a while, go deeper on what those wants really mean and feel like to you, soften your body to the possibility of creating it in that way. If things don’t show up exactly as you imagine it then don’t assume you aren’t creating, assume there is more you need to let in, more your need to embody as truth and more unfolding in time. Dont let anything take you away from your focus of what is possible, no matter what it looks like. Look for the your truth in what is. How could this actually be a part of my desire not the opposite of it? How could I use this to fuel me to create more?

It is time to start really creating again. It is time to free ourselves to live life on our own desires but let those desires be evolving as we learn more. Let us stop living a life of reactions to what has been and be the creator of what will be. I hope you join me.

If you want more help in doing this, please feel free to book a session. If you want to completely transform email me about learning more about one to one mentorships.

I also wish to inform you that I have increased my prices. While I know this can make some uncomfortable it is a nudge I was receiving internally for a while one I resisted because you know money… ick. But deep down I know all things including money are energy and I have made a deal with the universe that I give in proportion to what I receive so as prices go up, so should the value and potency of what I offer. Of course money is not the only exchange creating that, readiness, and intention on the client side and valuing the experience internally also creates deeper experiences to come through me. I am ready to offer deeper and more valuable and valued experiences. I hope to see you there.

So hour long readings will be $300 per hour or $400 for an hour and half. Half hour readings are $175.

Please note that if you are truly in need of financial assistance and feel aligned with a reading, please email me and let me know your situation. But, I also encourage you to practice a little manifestation magic as well. See if you can call it to you. The more magic you put in to being in that session, the more value the universe will return to you through the experience.

I so appreciate all of you and look forward to showing up in deeper service and to see what spirit has in store for us all.