the resistant mind as revolving door

METAPHOR #2 OF 3 FOR EASIER (hu)manifestation

Image of human beings moving through revolving door (with hill and trails beyond) from Derek Lee on Unsplash.

Let’s say that what you’re after (something that matches a heartfelt desire) is in a beautiful building with a lovely revolving door as you enter. If you’re someone who’s more lit up by the outdoors, let’s say that beyond the revolving door, you access entry to a gorgeous, protected natural park where flora and fauna thrive, the hiking is lovely, and the vistas take your breath away.

So you revolve about halfway around the entryway and emerge into the next space, right? That’s what you do because that’s how you’ll get to where you want to be.

Or, I dunno, do you maybe go all the way around (like children might do just for fun), and then hesitate and go around again, and then start normalizing the circular run, and then just keep going round and round? Obviously, that would be foolish and you’re no idiot: you’re going to head toward where you want to be.

BRINGING THE METAPHOR TO LIFE
(and to creating what you want in your life)

I want to call your attention to a ridiculously typical and normalized way of sabotaging your mental focus on what you want. (It’s also so easy to correct, but it does require that you realize you’re doing this and commit to correcting it!) Here’s how it goes in the mind.

• I really want a new house.
  
  
• Truth is, I’m not sure if my job’s secure these days.
  
  
• We’ll feel so much better in a place with more trees.
  
  
• I should really feel grateful for what I’ve got, given what so many other people live with, or without.
  
  
• I love this room when the light comes in. It would be amazing to have a place that lets even more light in at different times.
  
  
• It takes forever to find the right place, and we really don’t have that kind of time.
  
  
• I remember how happy I was when we moved here. Having that same feeling with the just-right place at this stage of life would be wonderful.
  
  
• I didn’t really see anything I liked last time I looked.
  
  
• The guncles just found an amazing spot in a neighborhood they love.
  
  
• Yeah, but they have two solid incomes and no kids.
  
  
• I know I’d feel even more inspired creating more art with a home studio that I’d set up all to my liking.
  
  
• I don’t think I can really justify that with the number of pieces I’ve sold so far

Image from house nestled in trees from Ivana Radević on Unsplash.

​Smart reader, you get the point, yeah?

Point’s a good word. The mind points

• toward what you want
• then toward what you don’t want
• then toward what you want
• then toward why you can’t have it
• then toward what you want
• then toward why you don’t deserve it or haven’t earned it
• then toward what you want,
• then toward your history and how it makes this unlikely in your present
• then toward what you want
• then toward all the cards stacked against you
• …

Yep, the revolving door of the mind. I know it’s obvious, but let’s say it outright since MOST PEOPLE DON’T LIVE THIS WAY. Do you? What you want to do is keep pointing toward what you want. Develop mental thought habits and spoken speech habits of pointing only toward what you want!

When you develop a predominant (not perfect!) mental focus on what you want, it naturally follows that you believe more and more that you can have it, that it’s on the way, that you know what to do to head in the right direction. You catch the inspired actions that pop in as inner guidance, or the external pointers that strike you as just right or you or pique your curiosity enough to send you exploring. That’s also inner guidance, because what matters most is how the thing coming in from outside (as advice or a website you stumbled on or a book title that you keep hearing) must spark some resonance inside for it to have any meaning for you at all. You’ll find how to go into a huge project or creation at your point of least resistance and keep going in that mode as momentum builds—so that each step feels relatively easy and you don’t get sucked into overwhelm about the whole big picture.

When you’re committed to keeping your thoughts going in the direction of what you want, you’ll be quicker to catch the thoughts that don’t match (the ones that will suck you back to the endlessly revolving door) and you’ll get off the topic or reach for a process to get your focus where you want it again. (I love me a focus wheel for putting a fine point on my focus, especially in the morning or whenever I feel a wobble, and the marble game’s fantastic for calling forth the thoughts and beliefs that will serve what you’re after—both from Abraham Hicks.)

Point toward what you want! Interrupt what points the other way. Reach for any help to get to a better-feeling place and refocus the mind. You’ve got this.
Love & blessings, Jaya

Manifestation metaphor #1 is about having the journey match the destination.

Manifestation metaphor #3 is about warped mirrors held up for you.