Cosmic Ordering in 7 Easy Steps: How to make life work for you. Carolyn Boyes

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       Step 2: Decide what you want

       ‘The thoughts that come so often unsought, and…as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have. And therefore should be secured, because they seldom return again.’

      JOHN LOCKE

      What do you want?

      What were you going to be when you grew up? Have your dreams been fulfilled?

      When you were a child, looking into the future, did you imagine your present life as it is now?

      When we are children we take imagination for granted. You dream that you will be rich, successful or famous. Maybe you will travel the world. Perhaps you will own a big house or fast car. Perhaps you will ride a camel across the desert or fly a plane around the world.

      What would it be like if you could make those dreams come true now? True, some of your dreams may have changed. Or maybe many of them are as they have always been?

      How would it be if you could believe that even one of your dreams could turn into reality?

      Maybe you know exactly what you want, maybe you have only a slight inkling, or maybe no ideas at all. Or, perhaps you even need to be convinced that it is okay to dream at all?

      Whichever way, you probably want something to change in at least some part of your life. In this step, you will start the process of laying the foundations for changing your life by discovering and rediscovering your dreams.

      Your life right now

       ‘For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these: “It might have been”.’

      JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER

      How satisfied are you?

      Take a look at your life as it is right now.

      Your life is as it is right now because you have created it.

      ‘That’s not fair,’ you might reply. ‘I haven’t created my life to be like this. Of course I would like to have more money, a better relationship, a happier social life, children, a new job, but I “have to” do what I do and this is why I want and need all these things.’

      It may surprise you to discover that you have always had all the means inside you to create anything in your life you want to—to create a unique expression of who you are.

      The reasons we have for all the things we ‘have to’ or ‘should’ or ‘must’ do are illusions. Your present is your present. Your past is your past. Your future can be entirely different. The power to make a new future is not dependent on your circumstances; it is dependent only on your mind.

       You can have what you want in the future, nomatter what is happening in your life rightnow and what has happened in the past.

      Anna’s story: The case of the right apartment

       I was living in a big house on the outskirts of London. My children had left home and I thought that it was time to swap all the space I no longer needed for a bijou apartment in the centre of the city.

       I knew exactly what I was looking for: I visualised a flat with French windows and a large sitting room, a balcony and a roof terrace. Everybody kept saying, ‘It’s not possible. There isn’t the availability. You can’t get all those things together.’ But I kept imagining myself in a flat just like that.

       After looking for a while, I found a flat that wasn’t exactly like the one I imagined, but I went for it anyway. However, after I put in the offer, the seller took it off the market. I then went on holiday, a bit fed up with the process. Going on holiday gave me the chance to recollect my thoughts and think again about what I really wanted.

       While I was away, my estate agent phoned me to tell me that he had three more apartments for me to see. I came back to London and he telephoned me again, but when I heard the details I wasn’t keen to see them as they were too expensive.

       Eventually, when he realised that I wasn’t interested, he told me about another apartment. He hadn’t bothered to tell me about it originally because he wouldn’t have got the same commission on it.

       I went to see it, and, of course, it was my dream flat. It needed lots of work doing to it—the bathroom would need changing around totally, the pipes replacing, the floor and the paintwork would all take money to fix—but it had the French windows and the large sitting room, the balcony and a roof terrace at the back, and it was right in the centre of London.

       What’s more, even though it’s a busy part of town, now I have moved in, I always get a parking space. Even when it seems impossible, someone always clears out of a space just when I am looking for one!

      Deciding what you want

      This series of exercises will help you develop your thinking about what you want in your life in preparation for the next step, where you will learn how to change your dreams into more specific cosmic orders.

      You don’t have to do all the exercises. Choose the ones that appeal to you most. They are designed to stimulate your imagination so that you can be absolutely clear about what you really want—something that is totally personal and right for you.

      

What is my life like now?

      One way to think about what you want is to consider how satisfied you are currently in the various areas of your life. You can divide your life up in different ways, of course, but here is a starting point for your thinking: How much joy, happiness, satisfaction and fulfilment do you СКАЧАТЬ