Making a List

I am not a regular list person. I make a list of things that need to get accomplished for the day and before the first hour has passed, I have lost it. Post it notes are not my thing, a task list in my phone just gets ignored, I am not a scheduled person and the thought that I must restrict myself to a piece of paper is unfathomable. Why? The same is accomplished in the day with or without it. And if it doesn’t, there is always tomorrow.

However, there is one list that I do make. I make it once a year and I hold it in my wallet. I don’t remember about it often but when I do, I take it out and I lovingly go through it, as if I had found a picture of someone beloved. And in a sense, I have.

REWIND TWENTY YEARS (Dear Gods, twenty years? Really? )

On a round table in my small kitchen, in a house that is no longer mine, my best friend and I sat with a book that had a recipe for success. We had found out that the book had made its way into both of our paths and although it had not been explored, it remained nearby, waiting for us to discover it.

During one of our lengthy conversations we found out that we both had the book and we both talked about it. Like two children who had discovered the forbidden, we sat around that table and we huddled together trying to unlock the secrets this book was giving us. Everything you could possibly want, all of your hearts desires are within your reach when you apply this knowledge to your life.

Holy Moly! We struck gold!!!

We gathered at the table again and we were ready. Paper? Check! Pencils? Check!

That’s it.

That’s it? Not an eye of Newt? (whatever a newt is!!), frog’s legs? Three wings of a silvered bat?

We were going to reach our heart’s desire and all of our dreams would come true with paper and pencils? I was beginning to grow skeptical.

However, my skepticism was short lived. The instructions continued to be simple and we simply followed them with wonder and excitement.

Step 2: Make a list of the things you want.

Heck that was easy. I want so-and-so to be my boyfriend, I want nice clothes, I want a cool car. The lottery would be nice too. For about ten minutes or so, our minds soared and we daydreamed and giggled about the things we wanted and how awesome life would be when we had what we wanted. The author of the book, Conny Mendez, encouraged our game. She told us to ask of it what we will because there was no question about receiving it. We did not need to be told twice. Off to fantasy land we went!

Step 3: Rewrite the same list, in present tense and using as much detail as your mind can muster.

For example: if you wanted a hot car, your statement would look like this.

My car is AWESOME! It has leather interior and its candy apple red, it is hot and it is sooooo smooth. Every time I get in it, I can see people looking at it with admiration…. Etc, etc, etc; you get my drift.

Step 4: No, no no… there is no step 4.

WHAT? No step 4? Surely you jest.

Nope, I am not Shirley and this is no joke my friend.

So my best friend and I put this paper away in our wallets and forgot about it for a while. Six months later (we had marked the calendar) we sat back around the table and looked at our lists.

Of the ten things we had listed, five of them were accomplished or no longer of interest.

Let me repeat that…

We made a list of ten things. Of those ten things, five or more of them had either come true, or they no longer mattered.

Six months later, the list had to be redone and new things had to be added to the list. In a full year, most of the things in the list had either come true or they were no longer part of our dreams.

How so? The guy I wanted to date turned out to be a jerk and I was glad nothing came through from that.

I had wanted a candy-apple red car and I didn’t have a candy-apple red car, but I did have my mom’s burgundy car that she let me drive to work. It wasn’t super hot and smooth, but it did get me places and at 15, that is all that matters.

So again, we sat down and repeated steps 1-3. We giggled at the possibilities and we dreamt about how it would be and how we would act when the things we wanted came into our life. Same process repeated, six months later, and another year later.

Now, I don’t know if Conny Mendez’s intention was to establish a pattern of a resolutions list but it did take that shape and although we didn’t continue working on our list together, or only once a year. We continued the pattern of designing the future.

FAST FORWARD TO 2010

We have since learnt so much about this list making process. Many people shun it like magic and call it evil and run away from it, afraid of what its power means. And rightly so, it isn’t only in Spiderman that this is true. With great power comes great responsibility.

Do not despair though; I am still going to share the power of the List!

First thing you must know. Your thoughts are powerful.

Have you ever thought about one person, and five seconds later that person called you? Or walked in your door? Or a picture fell into your lap?

Yes, I know coincidence… moving on.

Have you ever worried, and worried and worried that something horrible was going to happen and then much like you had warned everyone around you, it happened, unerringly like you had predicted?

Back to coincidence or your wisdom, could be either one…. Let’s move on.

Have you ever woken up with the thought that it was going to be a wonderful day and that nothing was going to stand in your path and your day went fabulous? Or vice versa, you wake up from a miserable night, you fall off of your bed and you slip in the shower, burn yourself with hot water and cut yourself so many times you look like a sieve and as you get ready to leave, you KNOW, this will be a horrible day.

And guess what? It was. Of course it was, it had no choice. Coincidence again, right?

No, not really.

First, let’s define something. What are your thoughts?

They are not random images in your head; they are not private deliberations that no one else will see.

Thoughts are things.

Things? Yes, things!

How things? Hmmmm, if I was thinking of winning the lottery, I was using some kind of material to build this dream of mine right?

Yess????

Ok, so what was that material? Cloud mist? Fairy dust?

IT IS ENERGY! Not energy like light bulbs and Al Gore energy.

Think energy like when you walk into the ocean and you feel that raw power that envelopes you. Think of the stillness of the forest that seems to vibrate to its own music. Think of the glow that a pregnant woman has long before she begins to show. Think of how you feel as someone with ill intentions approaches you.

How does the power of the ocean communicate itself to you? The stillness of the forest that seems to lower your own blood pressure (vibration)?

Everything has energy, every little bit of everything is made up of energy. Dreams, thoughts, people, cars, pets, broken hearts, aspirations and even nightmares. All of it made of energy.

In quantum physics, it is explained in particles of photon. Everything is made up in these particles; the denser the material, the slower the particles. (yada, yada, yada, look up quantum physics for further debate).

Ok, so what are we up to? Yes, thoughts are things; light particle things.

These light particle things have a level of vibration, a pulse if you’d prefer and it attracts to itself, things that have the same pulse. Imagine a gathering of people; they will group themselves according to their similarities. So it is with energy.

Negative energy: energy from worrying, from fear, from despair, from anger, from hate, from envy, from avarice. It all seeks vibrations, energy that it’s like itself.

For example, if hate is a 2.

You hate morning traffic =2

Your husband hates Brussels sprouts=2

Your father hates the IRS = 2

The KKK hates minorities = 2

You hate war = 2

It doesn’t make a difference what you hate, hate is hate is hate.

Same thing with love. Love, of course, is at the other end of the spectrum. It is not the opposite, for the opposite of love is fear, but they are at opposite ends of the spectrum. Love is a 100

You love ice cream = 100

Your daughter loves to dance = 100

Your husband loves his garden = 100

Your mother loves her charity work = 100

It doesn’t make a difference what you love. Love is love is love.

So, good thoughts give LOTS of vibration. Negative thoughts give little vibration.

In order for something to come to you, you need LOTS of vibration.

Your vibration is to be focused, is to come from a place of intention, and it is to be accepted, beyond a shadow of a doubt.

This is why prayer works. Prayers, meditations, offerings, spells and manifestations. ALL of them have the same thing in common. They are a focus of vibration and a willingness to sit there, open-hearted to receive it.

See, we haven’t discovered anything new. All we are doing is showing you the wizard behind the curtain.

And you know? The biggest challenge with praying for something isn’t that God doesn’t want you to have it, it isn’t that you didn’t use the right kind of vibration, nor that your spell failed.

The KEY ingredient in making this “process” work is absolute certainty, faith and knowing that it will come to pass. Your doubt is your undoing.

If you have accepted that your thoughts are powerful, you have tuned up your thoughts, you vibrate beautifully and yet, your lottery numbers haven’t come up. Don’t blame the magic! The vibration of the lottery numbers cannot come to you, if you still cannot “BELIEVE” that you are a lottery winner.

Before you can bring it into existence, you have to know the feeling, the emotion behind it and then you have to let it go.

Like they teach you in Sunday school: come to church, become one with God (align your energy with positive vibrations, ground yourself, still your thoughts); ask God to act in your behalf (offer your vibration, cast your spell, achieve your God-head) and LET IT GO!

So, as you can see, my list is not a technique that I discovered. It’s not even new. It is no SECRET. It’s your right, your passage, your key, your list, your power, your very own divinity, your nirvana, your bliss. It matters not what you call it, as long as you use it.

So, to recap:

You will need pen and paper

Make your list; include all of your hearts desire. And don’t ask for something you don’t want (what will you do if you get it…. Awkward!!!)

Focus your thoughts, your energy, your light particles, and your vibration on your desires. Include your images, daydream it, live it, feel it. Attach emotion to it!

And then fold your paper up, stick it in your wallet, in your purse, anywhere that it is close to you and from time to time, open it and enjoy it again.

And then let it go. Let it come to you; don’t seek to guide it, to pursue it, to chase after it.

There are more forces at work on this than you could ever imagine.

(I know what you will say, if this works so well, why am I not rich? Look again, I AM)