When you can see the invisible, you can do the impossible. Mark J.

Humans create from the workshops of our imagination.

I’ve been thinking about this all day. And as I thought about it, my Dad’s workshop kept coming to mind.

The house I grew up in had a separate garage. It sat away from the house closer to the alley. And it was unfinished inside. The floor was dirt. There were no lights. No power outlets. I don’t even know if the power was hooked up to it. I remember piles of junk laying all around. It was always dark in there except for the space where the sunlight shone through the door, during morning hours.

I don’t remember anything usable in that garage. Except for a time when my little brother secretly captured and raised pigeons in the attic. (I discovered them and he was outed, LOL)

I remember thinking of how it was such an underutilized space. And often imagined ways to turn it into a small apartment.

As a kid, I didn’t know how to do anything with what I imagined. And, it was supposed to be my Dad’s space. His garage. He wanted to finish it out and make it a workshop.

My imagination regarding that garage, growing up, was idle imagination. It lacked power.

Years later …

I grew up. Joined the Air Force. Moved away. Traveled and lived in other states and countries.

Years later, I came back home and my Dad had completed the conversion of that dreadful, dark, space into an amazing shop.

My Dad was a diesel mechanic. His Dad had been a carpenter, and an inventor.

My Dad proudly showed me his father’s tools and equipment and said, “There was nothing your Grandfather couldn’t do. He had even invented a type of steam engine in his day. “

Some of what looked like piles of junk laying all around when I was a kid, were the tools and equipment that once belonged to my grandfather.

I sat in that shop while my Dad worked on my car and learned so much about my father that I never even imagined when I was a kid. It was always there. But, my father was a quiet man, I didn’t hear any of his stories growing up.

It seemed there wasn’t anything my Dad couldn’t do. And I never knew that about him.

I have never seen a workshop before, or since, that was as well equipped and organized as my Dad’s workshop.

He had specialized tools for landscaping equipment, cars, diesels, motorcycles, bicycles, and surprisingly carpentry. Everything someone would need to repair essentially anything around a home, and vehicles, my Dad had in that workshop.

He had poured concrete for the floor. He installed power outlets for small equipment and even big heavy duty equipment. Everything was neatly organized, on built-in shelves and could be found right away. He had bright shop lights, and even a pull down ladder to the attic, which was also meticulously designed, lit, and well organized.

My Dad had built a vision for this workshop in his mind and heart for twenty years or so, before he was able to create it.

Looking around his workshop, I was stunned at the details of his vision. I could not have imagined what he imagined. It all came out of his mind, his vision, his dreams, his thoughts.

Thinking is the true business of life, power is the result. You are at all times dealing with the magical power of thought and consciousness. What results can you expect so long as you remain oblivious to the power which has been placed within your control? (Haanel 20.4)

Until I started writing this blog post, I had not thought of my Dad’s shop in terms of imagination and creating. Today, as I remember this, I’m seeing my father in an entirely new light. I have a whole new appreciation for him.

Since that first time in my Dad’s workshop, I’ve moved out to the property where I now live. When it came time to start building our home, my Dad surprised me by giving us Granddad’s old lathe.

My grandfather had hand built this lathe so he could build the house my Dad grew up in.

While we were building this house, I would come in and run my hand along that lathe and feel the poignancy of the connection with my Grandfather, that something he built was helping to build our home. Even now, my eyes tear up as I think about this.

When I was growing up, the story, or narrative I was living was of the unfinished, dark, junk-filled garage.

However now, in writing this blog post, I’ve realized I need to integrate the rest of the story, the well-lit, organized, finished workshop.

And the legacy of my father and grandfather demonstrating the power of their imaginations by their actions.

I consider reality to be fluid, like a lake.

Much of how we experience our lives comes from the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and our lives. The fluid, neuron-plasticity of our brains allows us to learn new things, to reinvent ourselves, and to frame our experiences in new ways that support living our purposes.

Today’s blog post, uncannily answers a question, “What am I pretending not to know?”

I have tons of projects around this house and property. And it’s very much tied to my definite major purpose.

Sometimes, I feel stuck, or like I’m spinning my wheels.

Sometimes I feel overwhelmed with all that needs to be done, like I did when I was a kid, thinking about the garage.

I’ve noticed that thinking doubtful or discouraging thoughts drains my energy. These thoughts literally dissipate my focus. They deplete my power.

It changes my story

Remembering my Dad’s workshop and connecting to how our imagination is our workshop, along with integrating the rest of the story, that I’ve pretended not to know, supercharges my energy. It changes my story. I can see how the old unexamined story was shaping some of my present experiences.

I imagine this will change now. (Breakthrough. Better quality fuel for my imagination.) 🙂

I know how to do this. Both my Dad, and Granddad are wonderful models for this!

Power is the fuel which fires the imagination. (20.8)

Trust the process.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

* Master Key Master Mind Alliance (MKMMA)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

* Affiliate

In this week’s lesson Haanel gives us the exercise of visualizing a plant from unseen to seen. And he describes the process of the visualization exercise in precise detail in 9.32.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about manifestation, the process of making something evident, or perceptible, especially to our five senses.

Perhaps the best description I’ve ever come across of the manifestation process can be found in Machaelle Small Wright’s book, Co-Creative Science, A Revolution in Science Providing Real Solutions For Today’s Health & Environment. (pages 95 through 102)

Machaelle pioneered a way to work with what she calls Nature Intelligence in co-creating and manifesting.

She describes three dynamics to manifestation. Like Haanel, she emphasizes the high level of focus, the intensity of focus, required to manifest.

“Clarity of thought and visualization were key”, she says. They are the foundation of manifestation in the first dynamic, and become increasingly important in the other two dynamics.

In Haanel 9.33, after going through the description of a plant from the unseen to the seen, Haanel writes:

“When you are able to make your vision clear and complete you will be enabled to enter into the spirit of the thing; it will become real to you …”

Acorn to Oak filmed over an 8 month period time-lapse

In Week 7, I mentioned that my mother is psychic. To be honest, we are all psychic. But most of us have not learned how to recognize this in ourselves.

Just as the principle of what wires together fires together and what you use grows, what you don’t use atrophies, applies in how we create our lives; it also applies to our culture.

Our modern culture hasn’t recognized these very real and natural capacities in us, so they get ignored, and grow weaker.

But they are present, waiting for us to become aware of them and develop them, just like exercise develops our muscles.

What people refer to as psychic abilities are connected with our primary glandular/sensory systems which draw information from our environment. This happens with both the external physical, mental and energetic environments, as well as the internal physical, mental and energetic environments.

Just as we may have preferred learning styles, we also have preferred ways in which we process information. I suspect these are closely tied to our temperaments, what many refer to as the four temperaments. You may know them as personality colors. (There hasn’t been, to my knowledge, much academic research into this. If you have come across research about this, drop me line in the comments below. I’d be interested in knowing.)

Here’s a short summary, the four psychic receptive areas. (1)

Intuition – Psychic knowing, or sometimes called prophetic knowing
Feeling – Sensing, empath, the body as an antenna, or tuning fork
Hearing – Inner listening, the still small voice within
Vision – Seeing, auras, images on the mind’s eye screen, dreams

People often have a primary preferred way of processing information and then a secondary way. We all have all four and other forms, too, to some degree.

My mother is clairvoyant, primarily visual. Visualizing is a piece of cake for her. Most information about manifesting focuses heavily on the visual and visualization techniques.

I am primarily knowing, intuitive, with my secondary sense being feeling. My nervous system is ultra-sensitive.

Vision is the weakest reception area for me.

I am also an abstract thinker. Most people see concrete images in their mind’s eye when they think of something, say a dog, or cat. My mind’s eye stays blank, or black. I don’t see the concrete images when I think. About 2 – 5 percent of the population are abstract thinkers.

This makes visualization especially difficult for me.

I thought perhaps there may be other people like me. People with whom visualizing is more difficult. For this reason I thought to share the Manifesting Our Sofa story to help you relate to a process that may not be so visual but relies more on the knowing and feeling senses. And still allows you a clarity of thought to initiate your visualization process. (This happened in 2006, the sofa in the above photo, ten years ago. 🙂 )

First off, I made a clear decision. I wanted a new sofa. I didn’t know what it looked like, but I knew how it felt. So, I focused on the feeling of that sofa. As I feel the spirit of the thing, it becomes real through the sensation of feeling. Here, I am gaining clarity of thought, but through feeling, first.

The visual comes latter in the process.

What often happens, is that as I focus on this feeling, in time, I often then begin to have snippets of information that I suddenly just know, or I will hear with my inner hearing. Then images pop up in my mind’s eye screen. Because my mind screen is most often blank, or black, these images really stand out to me. I jot these down in my journal.

When I start to see images, I know that the manifestation process is strengthening. When the images start popping up, this lets me know that the physical manifestation is coming soon. This indicates, it is already done.

In the case of my sofa, what I saw was a color, a specific shade of rust. This felt right for me. Yes, I heard and felt inside me. This is the right color for the feel of what I wanted as a sofa in our living room. I told my husband about the snippet of an image I saw, and within days, I got a call from him.

He had walked into the local Habitat for Humanity store and saw a sofa that matched the color of rust I described to him. When I arrived at the store, as soon as I saw the back of the sofa, the color matched exactly, I knew, this was the sofa I felt. We were able to purchase a $4500.00 sofa for $1300.00. It was an amazing find. It felt almost miraculous, or magical.

_______

I want to add a couple of tips here.

1. What we manifest often shows up through other people. This happens a lot with my husband and me.

2. I’ve tried at times to describe this felt sensation of knowing. It feels like something syncing, or clicking inside, as if two gears have come together and fall into groove with each other. It’s a very real, visceral, inner sensation. Some examples of how a person with different reception area preferences may experience this: if you are more clairaudient you may hear an inward click, or if you are more visual, you make see the gears click. Everyone is unique. Everyone has their own unique inner language.

I hope this may be helpful to others. Start with your strength, and hold the focus, the other pieces of the process will come to you.

One more thing, to help me develop a capacity to visualize better I am learning how to draw. I’m using the book, “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain” by Betty Edwards.

She teaches that learning how to see, as it relates to drawing, is a global skill. It’s a book that many remote viewers recommend for developing their ability to visualize clearly. I’ll let you know how this works out for me, as I learn more.

(1) *You Are Psychic by Pete A Sanders, Jr.