 Image of person’s face and shoulders bathed in glittery nightclub lights from Sarah Wolfe on Unsplash. Where do you stand toward where you stand right now? This is a bad idea: Focus on current conditions that are not to your liking—that need fixing, that bother you, that make your life feel like a grind, that stir up dread, that make you review history for what’s been wrong forever or what was lost, that pop you to a future with more of the same, etc, etc. (Follow that link if you want more on that.) This is a very good idea: Find what you already like about where you stand now, what your life is like right now, what feeds you and supports you and lights you up right now. These are bad and good ideas respectively not just in terms of determining how happy you are and how much you love or even appreciate your one wild and precious life. They also affect how and how quickly you get to where you’d prefer to be than where you find yourself right now. Feeling bad as a misguided motivator We don’t need to pathologize wanting change, wanting more, wanting things to be better. In fact, evolution and movement toward greater well-being are the way of this world, this Universe. That’s how it works. That will always be operative. We love taking things to the next level and improving on what we got to before. But in some weird, wobbly moment in time, human beings got it in their heads (and taught that idea to younger ones, and wrote it into books and scripts and songs, so that we all started to treat it as fact) that when we focus on what’s wrong, what’s missing, what needs to be fixed and improved, things will go better. Actually, when we focus on what feels bad to us, we feel bad. We cultivate dissatisfaction. We feel stuck and doubt our capacity to change things, or we notice factors that make change seem hard or complicated or unlikely. We lose track of what’s going well. We talk to others from that perspective and create vibes of complaining or criticism. It’s not pretty. That focus on WRONG actually doesn’t motivate us to move forward and create more of what we want. We do keep trying to make this warped tactic work, though. If you’re noticing now that you feel pretty married to that idea, or you’re pretty sure it’s a focus you’d better hang on to (I mean, it’s been really well-rehearsed and -reinforced), you might simply ask yourself whether there might be other and better motivators for creating the change you want and bettering things that aren’t as you want them to be. You don’t even need to locate and name the new motivators right away. Just open to the idea that kinder and more effective ones might actually exist, and they might serve you better.  Image of adult and baby gazing at each other in delight from Ben Iwara on Unsplash. Here’s what I know will serve you better
 Image of young person with hands and face informed by awe from Afif Ramdhasuma on Unsplash. Appreciate where you stand right now This is now. This is here. This is where you are. Notice what you like about this place. Notice how it serves you. Notice how much your needs are met. Notice that there’s laughter and beauty and functionality in every corner of the Universe, this one you’re in now included. Or as Abraham-Hicks says, there’s wanted and unwanted in every particle of the Universe—and they (A-H) constantly invite us to point toward or focus on the wanted. From feeling good about where you are, you can feel better still. From there, you can see what else is possible. You’ll be open to the inspired idea coming in, and you’ll have the wherewithal to follow the mental spark with physical action. From there, you’ve got enough of a good mood going and good energy stirring that you can notice one next simple thing to do to feel better better better, to like your life (job, relationship, home, kids, location, avocation) even more, to make this work a bit more smoothly, to help the dynamic ease with this person or that machine or this place. …  Image of cat luxuriating as human hand scratches under their chin from Yerlin Matu on Unsplash. I am not asking you to do anything I’m not doing myself. I live in the midwest right now, caring for my mom in the last phase of her life. I’m here until that’s no longer needed (unless I get different operating instructions as I go). I’ve believed I hate this part of the country, it’s landlocked and I love ocean, it’s conservative politically, it’s not the easiest place to be queer (Ithaca was that!), the topography is flat (boring). I could go on. But I don’t. Every day I love the birds I see. I gaze at the sky and remember that I’ve seen similar skies over the ocean, and think about how the ocean could be RIGHT THERE. I find dogs who want to greet me like a best friend. I visit nearby parks that feel great to me, and where I see not only dogs but blue and green herons, where I saw my first indigo bunting and first bright red summer tanager (and I’ve seen them more than once), where big ole turtles hang out on logs and cool snakes sometimes slither across the path. I’ve found some lovely and queer-friendly coffee shops with adorable baristas who remind me of my kids. I have fun making my mom laugh every day and getting involved with her in the convivial drama of The Great British Baking Show. I do my work by zoom and love it every day, every individual and group session. I play with art supplies daily. I listen to things that feel enlivening and elucidating, often in Spanish. Every day, I love my life. And every day, I believe it’s getting better. And one day, as I’ve done before, I’ll be writing you from somewhere I actually prefer, somewhere tropical, maybe, where English isn’t the first language. I’m on my way, I’m in my becoming, and where I am now is just fine. You’re on your way. You’re in your becoming. Where you are now is absolutely just fine. Love it, and love following any small thing you think of that would make things feel even better. That will INEVITABLY take you to larger such things. (The earlier Mary Oliver quote was … your one wild and precious life. It’s from The Summer Day. Did you get gold stars?) Love & blessings, Jaya
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 Photo of rainbow from car on highway from Husam Yaghi on Unsplash. JUNE 22 WAS MY BIRTHDAY—my favorite day of the year. I stepped outside early in the morning then fetched a broom to sweep the messy walkway. I took my time so I could linger in one of the most delicious breezes I’ve ever felt on my skin. It was a strong one, too, and I knew I was doing thankless work that’s instantly nullified by the next mess. But … I wasn’t in it for the thanks, or even for the task. WHICH IS THE MAIN EVENT? Have you ever had the experience of going outside to work in the garden or do some fix-it project or wash your car—really because you just wanted to be outside? And bonus, a chore gets done while you’re out there. Or have you ever gone out into the world rationally believing that what you’re up to is shopping or picking something up from your work place, and as you go about your business, you take in some beautiful or interesting sights and lovely sensations, or you hear a near-forgotten song you love on the radio, or you run into someone wonderful (and maybe something recent made you think about them, so now the magic has kicked in as well)? Which was in fact the main event—the errand or the joy-producing, soul-nourishing stuff along the way? Or have you ever gone somewhere with a particular idea of what would unfold or a particular goal in mind, or entered a conversation thinking you were moving with this person in a certain direction, and then you discovered that something entirely different was underway? Whether you expected a proposal and got a break-up instead, or you expected a routine catch-up and instead got a tempting business proposal—truly, the good or the bad of it doesn’t matter. You could say it’s all good, and you might notice it all comes with challenges. More important, it’s all the stuff of life! WAKING UP TO REALITY So what’s more aligned with reality? The stuff we check off lists, or the stuff that grabs us and generates awe and other stirring emotion? The stuff that feels good because we’re properly adulting or the stuff that reminds us of what we’ve known since earliest childhood, that life is fun and fascinating and delicious and hilarious and profound? The stuff we sleep-walk through or the stuff that wakes us up? Well, actually, in presence, we can be awake through both kinds of events. And, of course, both are reality. And both are happening concurrently ALL THE TIME. OUR REALITY ON PLANET EARTH IS OUR DANCE WITH CONSCIOUSNESS. The spiritual stuff that delivers goosebumps or quiet smiles or hard laughter is in no way opposed to or separate from the stuff that keeps us financially solvent or takes care of the physical well-being of our bodies or homes. I have a friend spending this day cleaning up flooding in her basement. I learned this in a WhatsApp exchange in which I did NOT write that I’m so sorry she has to do this pain-in-the-bum stuff. I wrote, Wishing you any bit, glimpse, or, um, flood of sparkle and joy as you set your basement straight. She will not be offended that I didn’t treat her like some god-awful thing had gone wrong, because she’s right with me. She lives in a gorgeous flow with whatever life delivers and walks herself through it brilliantly & kindly and keeps learning and loving as she goes. She’s also hilarious and I love being around her. LET LIFE SHOW YOU Let life show you what you’re doing as a human being in a material world, and let life show you what is constantly shimmering under the surface. Let life show you whether the next event is to your liking or not, but go in no matter which you think it is, curious about what cool next experience or what gorgeous new understanding or what kind of fun you’ll get this time. Go swimming without knowing whether you’ll be in the shallows or the depths this time, and just LOVE the swim.  Image of two dolphins leaping out of the water from A Chosen Soul on Unsplash. As I keep celebrating my 63rd birthday, as I savor this amazing life I’m in, I invite you to the following. Keep having fun and keep being curious and keep showing up IN CHOICE, as if you’re doing it all for you. Because ultimately, you are. This is YOUR DANCE WITH CONSCIOUSNESS, however you choose it, whether you hold a consciousness of choice or not. If you choose according to other people’s expectations, you’ll end up in resentment or deep dissatisfaction or at some level of disconnection from your authentic self. FORGETTING & REMEMBERING Later, if you find yourself telling someone (in your head or out loud) (we can be even more shrill in our heads, can’t we?) (I have a head, I know all about this) (I digress) … If you find yourself declaring how hard you worked or how much you sacrificed or alllllllllllll that you did (that they’re failing to appreciate), you’ll be inaccurate or at least beside the point in your take on the matter. What’s truer is that you forgot why you’re really here. What’s truer is, you forgot to have fun and love every moment of the journey—or at least appreciate its value and stay open to the capacity for anything lovely, interesting, wondrous—for anything life- or love-infused)—to show itself at any time; to enter into your lived visceral sensory experience of the dynamic now in the dynamic now, NO MATTER THE CONTENT OF THE MOMENT. Don’t accept being in autopilot. It’s fine to catch yourself there (yay, you caught it!). Course-correct back to presence. Don’t do things to check them off lists. Don’t miss the journey. And don’t suffer to be good or do a good job or have others think you’re a good person. Nothing will be accomplished by that except more suffering for you to live through and walk yourself out of. Live your beautiful life. The beauty is astonishing. THIS, TOO, IS ABOUT MANIFESTATION I’ve been sharing manifestation nuggets. I didn’t call this one that, but it really is. When you’re living in the mindset described here and the feeling state that goes with it, you’re much open, you’re in a state of allowing, and you generate the creative ideas & energy to move toward what you want with concrete actions in this physical world. Again, the spiritual and the earthly all married together, not separate, not at odds with each other. Love & blessings, Jaya third (hu)manifestation nugget Photo of two bees on a yellow flower from Mario Beducci on Unsplash. This writing contains one manifestation principle plus: 1) some thoughts to support your deeper understanding; 2) some ways to play with it and practice. Here’s nugget #3. TREAT & USE APPRECIATION AS YOUR GREATEST ALLY IN MANIFESTATION. WHAT THIS MEANS When you’re …
… YOU’RE OUT OF ALIGNMENT WITH YOUR INNER BEING. Other ways to say that: You’re out of alignment with …
Hey, you can even just call it being out of alignment, period, and drop any name for the pure-essence-can-do-creative-energy you’re out of alignment with! Is it already clear & obvious to you that you’re not going to step into your life at your most powerful level when you feel like it’s such a struggle and things are kind of stacked against you or you’re doing it all wrong or missing some crucial piece? Is it equally clear & obvious that when you’re out of alignment, you’re not at ease or feeling your power to generate more of what you want? What’s the quickest way to come into alignment? We’ve already looked at feeling good and loving your life on an ongoing basis, or prioritizing feeling better when you can’t feel good. That will keep you aligned and coming back to alignment as you simply care about and manage or take care of how you feel. Really make a project of it. The P-word again: Prioritize it. But is it also clear & obvious to you that APPRECIATION is the easiest access point to feeling good? To establishing an ongoing feel-good place inside you that you can keep coming back to as an easy touchstone or point of reference? Let’s look at the practice, or the practical application of APPRECIATION AS YOUR PORTAL TO ALIGNMENT. HOW TO WORK WITH THIS CONCEPT Cultivate appreciating anything you can feel good about having and benefiting from in your world, life, home, relationship, work, family, location, etc, etc, all day every day. Appreciate what you like about your bed and bedroom or sleeping space when you wake up. Appreciate your access to drinking water and the supplies and utensils to make or buy the hot beverage of your choice. Appreciate the weather, the yard, the street, the signs of nature all around, the breezes, the temperature, the green, the gray. Appreciate the clothes you have to wear. Appreciate each small thing your amazing body allows you to do. Appreciate good sensations and flavors and smells and movement. Appreciate your five senses, or however many you have access to at whatever level! Appreciate the food you’re eating. Choose it, take time to prepare it consciously, chew it, taste it, savor it. Appreciate the faces around you. Appreciate the energies around you. Appreciate the silence, appreciate the sounds. Appreciate your agency, all the minute and huge ways you have choice, your capacity to choose. Appreciate how you show up. Appreciate how others show up. Appreciate time and how it supports you and quit saying there’s not enough of it; quit treating it like it’s working against you. Appreciate your capacity to NOTICE that you’re functioning right now in a stressful, anxious, irritated, fretting [whatever] way, and your ability to reach for soothing tactics, movement, breathing, pausing, reframing, opting in, redirecting, delegating, asking for help … Appreciate how you grow, how you’ve grown, how you’re teachable, how amazing teachers, guides, wisdom has come to you. Appreciate that you do enough, you’ve done enough, this is all enough, for now. You are enough, always. Is it clear and obvious that I could keep going and so could you? All that we can appreciate in a life, an era, a season, a day, a moment, one single task, the one that’s ours to do right now—truly, it’s endless. Living in a bottomless pit—okay, maybe a well—okay, fountain, ocean … or how about infinite space of APPRECIATION! Living in ongoing boundless appreciation is not only possible but extremely advisable for feeling good and living in alignment. Bring that to your moment-to-moment everyday life! It can help to write it down, as in the Easy Existing Matches exercise. The more you appreciate everything as it is here and now ... Wait, there are many ways to say that
AN IMPORTANT WORD ON ENJOYING THE JOURNEY That enjoy-the-journey bit is important, because each arrival, each manifestation, has a whole journey that goes with it and came before. Some are quick, some are long, some are harrowing, some involve lots of fun and adventure … in any case, there’s a journey. Enjoy the journey. Don't miss the journey. (That could be a whole nugget in itself, but we’ll let it piggy-back here onto APPRECIATION AS KEY.) For those wondering why I’m not talking about GRATITUDE, it’s very deliberate. I was already not a fan when I learned from Abraham-Hicks the greater power of APPRECIATION over gratitude. If gratitude feels amazing to you, keep it! But for many of us, it has a tinge (sometimes unconscious) of you’d better be grateful, or you deserve nothing if you’re not grateful, or it’s all going to be snatched away from you if you’re not grateful. None of that is empowered or aligned. I’ve written about appreciation vs. gratitude in this post with a recipe for the gratitude-intolerant. I’ve written here about appreciation as an underappreciated tool for creating your life. ENJOY CULTIVATING APPRECIATION. It naturally feels good, it easily brings you into and supports you to spend more time in alignment. It gives you easy access to coming back to alignment when you’ve slipped away (and slip we will). It’s truly your best ally in the manifestation game—and the game of life. Love & blessings, Jaya Find the second (hu)manifestation nugget here. Find the first (hu)manifestation nuggets here. FIRST (hu)manifestation nugget Photo of two bees on a yellow flower from Mario Beducci on Unsplash. This writing contains one manifestation principle plus: 1) some thoughts to support your deeper understanding; 2) some ways to play with it, as no concept will do you any good unless you know how to put it into practice. Practice, by the way, is a great word. Keep playing with anything that seems promising to you until you get better and better at using it effectively and with ease.
I want to begin with a pair of principles that really go hand-in-hand and work together as one. THE FEELING IS THE FIRST MANIFESTATION. A FEELING IS THE EASIEST THING TO MANIFEST. WHAT THIS MEANS Well, if you’ve ever fallen in love, you remember that before you ever know the details of what you and this other beautiful human being are going to do together; and before you know the details of all you later came to know about them (a body of knowledge you may still be adding to)--first of all, you felt all kinds of feelings. You felt feelings you wanted more of. You felt a pull, a curiosity, something that wouldn’t let you go. In short, you felt the love. Um, you may have experienced this with non-human sentient ones (wonders!) as well—the animal we take one look at while visiting the shelter, and we’re done for. I’m not going home without you. From another angle, think specifically of when you got an idea to look for a certain kind of job or explore a certain course of study or learn how to become an X [fill it in and get specific here, so that you’re learning from your own lived experience]. You might remember the first jolt of Whoa, what about this? Or the curiosity that stirred and kept growing as you looked into different possibilities. Or the excitement that grew as you talked about it with others or read things written about it. (Side note: You know that some kinds of talking to certain people dashes the dream while it’s unformed, so take care with that!) You know when you started wondering about buying a car or a house or a taking a trip, and as you looked into things and dreamed into different possibilities, you felt a momentum build to carry you in that direction. That momentum came from feelings. You could feel what it might feel like to live there or drive that or vacation there, and perhaps as this grew inside you, it seemed more and more DOABLE until perhaps it felt inevitable. The feeling comes before the manifestation. The feeling is in fact the first manifestation. Once you get the feeling going related to the thing you want, that fuels the going after it, the grabbing of ideas and opportunities that come to you to explore it. You know they come and you miss them, or ignore them, or talk yourself out of them; OR, they come and you go with them and grow the thing. The feeling make the difference. It allows you to take a risk when a part of you (or someone in your world) objects. The feeling is the magnet that brings it in. And the feeling is easier to get in place than the lover or the car or the advanced-degree program or whatever. Way easier. But most of us don’t give a lot of attention to cultivating that feeling—except when we’re falling in love, which is why I began there. The love buzz is so compelling that we let the feeling take us and we go with it. It’s possible to do that (in different ways, at different levels) with other things in life, with anything in life, as well. It’s not only possible--it’s a necessary component of manifestation. The feeling will fuel the journey from wanting to having, from dreaming to creating. HOW TO WORK WITH THIS CONCEPT You may trip yourself up (many people do) by mentally jumping too soon to the finish line. You don’t need to know now what it (whatever you’re after) will look like or how you’ll go about getting the right information or making the choices involved or how you’ll finance it or how long it’ll take you to get it nailed down. Don’t jump ahead. Stay out of not only the outcome but also the details of the journey. Do show up for the journey as it unfolds, now and now and now, with each thought, each bit of research, each conversation, each little or large trip to explore the site, etc, etc, etc. Most important: ENJOY THE JOURNEY. FEEL GOOD WHILE YOU’RE ON IT. HAVE FUN DOING IT. START FEELING NOW HOW YOU WANT TO FEEL WHEN YOU GET THERE. CULTIVATE NOW THE FEELING that goes with whatever you’re after. The easiest way to work with this is by going very general with the feeling you’re after. At the least-specific level, you want this thing because it will feel good to have it. You’ll feel better in some way. It will improve your life, your sense of purpose and fulfillment, the amount of fun you’re having, the joy of having an experience, developing a talent, offering a service, relating with a certain someone or population in a certain way. All of that feels good. Feels like you being you. Feels like life is good and worth living. So … the work is first and foremost to feel good now. Feel good in any realm of life. Feel good getting up, feel good first thing in the day, feel good going to work or wherever you’re going. Feel good with people, feel good with tasks, feel good in the world, feel good noticing what you notice, feel good moving in your body. Feel good, now, living where you live, doing what you do, relating with whoever’s around you, moving in your body as it looks and feels now, experiencing the nature in your vicinity. Notice that these things aren’t necessarily related to the thing you want or even in the same realm of life--you may even think you’re off-course or at least off-topic giving this your PRIMARY attention, but you’re not. (I’ve written before about how the universe doesn’t care about categories, and your feeling good here and now will spill into the good feeling of what you want to bring in.) As you carry on and live life and go about your business, yes, you’ll need to move toward the thing you want by exploring a possibility here and another there, taking one simple next step at a time to flesh out the dream, learn more about the various forms it could take, check out what seems most promising. But don’t just take steps to check steps off a list. Take steps to keep cultivating and growing the feeling. Take steps while paying attention to how you feel! Last way to apply this: In your process of exploration, when it feels good to explore, and you feel it as expansive (fun, interesting, exciting), KEEP GOING. When it feels bad (stressful, confusing, overwhelming, deflating, frustrating), MOVE AWAY FROM THE TOPIC. You’ll kill it for no good reason by staying fixated on the how when where and getting preoccupied and confused by what you don’t yet see. The not-yet-visible is probably something you couldn’t possibly see right now and won’t ever bring into view by keeping your blurry, squinty gaze on it as you feel worse and worse. Whatever you’re after, get the feeling in place first, and feel good in whatever step you take in that direction. Feel the feeling grow. Consciously expand it. Feel good in general all the time in all that you do (or in resting, playing, NOT doing). Manifest the feeling first. That’s the easiest way, and it really is a manifestation in itself. Love & blessings, Jaya Find second (hu)manifestation nugget here. Find third (hu)manifestation nugget here. 
Photo of two bees on a yellow flower from Mario Beducci on Unsplash.
It’s so much fun and sometimes pure delight to live in a symbolic Universe. The more you play with symbols, the more naturally you tune in to them in films, dreams, images, and truly any event or occurrence, from the sublime to the ridiculous. From looking up right when the star shoots across the sky just as you were appreciating how good you have it, to stepping in dog poop while you were hating on your life. So as we approach Summer Solstice here in the Northern Hemisphere (but we’ll happily share the symbolism with the rest of you), what’s the message? Let’s look at the clues …
The truth is, people really are more open to meeting their fun-loving, expansive selves and letting them out to play this time of year. I’m going to give you some good reminders for stuff to easily do on your own just below, and below that are facts about SUMMER MANIFESTATION & MAGIC closed coaching groups I’m running starting next week! (Round 2 starts in late July, but I’m taking right off here with those who are ready to go.) What immediately follows is for everyone. You may want to skip the M & M group-coaching stuff after that, or go straight there! So how about if we get in on the summer solstice symbolism (or invitation!) and lighten up? Seriously, aren’t you tired of what feels heavy and hard? Aren’t you sick of narrating problems? Are you done (or getting doner) with treating life like a constant puzzle to solve (that you suspect has missing pieces)? You can lighten up … by prioritizing feeling good and having tactics to just feel better when you notice the first hint (or any level) of feeling bad. It sounds simple because it is. If you respond way more often and way more quickly to the first hints of feeling bad, and redirect your focus effectively, you’ll be lighter, happier, and more joyful in your work & play much more of the time. The mood you’re in and the internal climate you cultivate determines A LOT about your external reality. You can lighten up … by rejecting every single you’re-wrong-you’re-bad-you’re-not-enough message that comes into your field or (most common) suggests itself in your own mind. STOP TOLERATING THESE. They’re not real, and they keep you down & heavy for no good reason, when you could feel buyant & light. Be a good parent to yourself and give yourself constant new messages of being more than enough. You can lighten up … by using the 3 kinds of business to keep putting down what’s not yours to manage—because you’ve noticed (you’ve noticed, right???) that you create misery for yourself and rub others the wrong way when you think it’s your job to keep in view all that others are doing wrong or managing badly and you try to convert them to your way of seeing and doing things? Your timetable and prioritization of their personal-growth or health agenda? Your beliefs about what matters and what doesn’t? (However fabulous these may be.) [PARENTHETICAL PRACTICAL SIDE TRIP: To work with the 3 kinds of business on a here-and-now level, ask yourself—when you feel any kind of bad: 1) Whose business am I in right now? (Find the answer. It will be someone else’s or the Universe’s if you feel bad, almost certainly.) 2) So what is my actual business here and now? (Or what is my business related to this topic?) Feel the relief and peace and integrity in not trying to manage and control what isn’t yours. (Yeah, that includes a lot going on in the political scene.) Then give you attention, focus, and action to what’s actually yours. Remember it’s always your business to soothe yourself and find your alignment.] You can lighten up … by doing processes early in the day and all day that are designed to make you feel good and clear and light, with your own chosen focus in view. AND THEN BEYOND THAT, STOP WORKING ON YOURSELF. STOP FIXING YOURSELF. You’re not broken. There’s nothing wrong with you. I did a series of 5 quick & easy processes for focus & alignment, all from Abraham-Hicks (find the first one here, then follow forward in time on my blog for the rest.) You can REALLY REALLY REALLY lighten up … by being in this present moment and not burdening it with a whole past and a bunch of collected facts toward a fixed identity (some of which casts you in a bad light); and not going into your head to review concepts that keep old beliefs and limitations in place. BRING IT TO NOW. Make choices about what’s here now. Give focus to what’s here now. Connect to your grounding, breathing, and five senses, which will always report to you what’s here and now. You can lighten up … by not striving to figure out what you can’t understand right now (not yet, not from your current vantage point). When you’re puzzling over something with a furrowed brow and you’re not having fun or feeling connected to the new understanding or next idea that’s on its way in, look away. Get off the topic! Even briefly. Do something else that helps you feel better in body, heart, and mind, then come back later when you feel clear, light, and aligned. 
Image of bioluminescent marine critter from Nikolay Kovalenko on Unsplash.
Our amazing planet is full of magical-seeming things that I just like to call the magic. Like phosphorescence that shows up in so many ways and contexts. I just saw my first fireflies of the season a couple of nights ago when I was looking for the moon. I also did find the moon (turns out the glowing insects are positioned slightly lower than the moon), which never fails to soothe and delight me, whichever face or phase she’s presenting.
Want to explore the magic and expand its presence in your day-to-day life? Want to play consciously with manifestation and get more confident with believing that and understanding how you create your own reality? Want to differentiate playing with the magic from magical thinking? [Parenthetical Hint about that last bit: A SENSE OF MAGIC held from a healthy perspective will make you feel solid in your joy, and light in your outlook on life. It will support you to use your selective attention to find what works in your life, what supports you, what fills you with awe and moves you to sweet tears or spontaneous secret smiles and outright laughter. MAGICAL THINKING, in contrast, feels flimsy (and can create false highs and crash landings) because you’re lying to yourself and making shit up—for example, trusting someone who’s untrustworthy in the name of love, or creating false if-then equations (If this door opens, then things will go just the way I want). We’ll notice and reframe potentially made-up things like “The Universe is telling me to …” and in general get real—not only to stay out of magical thinking, but to move into the actual power and magnificence available to us. You’re not being real where you keep identifying with and expect to play out your time-reinforced limitations.] SUMMER MANIFESTATION & MAGIC COACHING GROUPS If you’d like to join me and others in a 5-week coaching group on Manifestation & Magic, I’m running a few of these with different parameters from those of my usual coaching groups. These are briefer and therefore have a lower price point. (I’ll really be running four groups, two that span June & July, and two that span July & August.) THIS IS A COACHING GROUP, NOT A CLASS. You’ll learn things, sure, but we’ll be workshopping concepts and making them concrete and actionable, not just talking theory. What happens in the coaching group In the summer Manifestation & Magic groups, we’ll stir up some very good energy and and tactics to create more of what we want. We’ll meet resistance and perceived challenges that arise for group members with processes, clear conversations, and specific tasks to play with and practice between meetings. We’ll get practical and nitty-gritty and bring beautiful concepts into our lived experience, consciously moving the ways we trip ourselves up (mentally, emotionally, and through action or non-action) OUT OF THE WAY. A longer explanation of how I run coaching groups in general here. Between sessions, you’ll be able to connect with other group members IF YOU FEEL LIKE IT to egg each other on and share sparky tidbits as they happen in real time. See logistical info right under FACTS pic. 
Illustration of Jaya avatar discussing FACTS from Bitmoji.
If you join me for this summer Manifestation & Magic, you will choose EITHER the Monday or Tuesday group and EITHER session one or two. So you have 4 options.
Each group is CLOSED once we begin, and membership is capped at 11 participants (including me, but it’s more fun to say 11 than 10). We’ll meet 5 times weekly for 90 minutes each time. After the final meeting, I’ll do one-on-one debriefs with each participant in 20-30-min zoom meetings to support you to best integrate and carry forward what you’ve gained. The fee is $369 by check and $377 by Venmo or PayPal. My preference is payment up front, but if you’d like to pay in installments, please ask for that! Note that times given below are in Eastern Standard time.
Ask me questions or register by writing me at [email protected]. You can also register by simply making the payment, then write me! Or give me your preferred email address in a message with the payment, and I'll write you. Venmo: @jayathetrustcoach PayPal: paypal.me/jayathetrustcoach Love & blessings, Jaya |
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