What is the path of least resistance to manifesting your dream?

Path of Least Resistance to our Vanabode

On January 18, 2016June 4, 2016 By Trisha BarnesIn Personal Growth, Vanabode Dream4 Comments

What is the path of least resistance to manifest what you desire?

What do you do when that which you want seems to be taking such a long time to get here?

The natural tendency for most people is to get frustrated and even a little bit angry. Sometimes, jealousy and envy erupt as you see that others seem to “have it all” and you begin to doubt that you’ll ever truly manifest what you desire.

That’s the rub. That’s the resistance. That’s the issue that needs to be addressed.

We have a new dream now that we manifested the freedom to live and travel on the Naked Hippies Roadtrip. Our new dream is to replace our Big Foot pickup camper with a Vanabode.

We’ve done the research, we know exactly what we want, the model, the features, the set up. There are pictures of the Vanabode on our vision board. We have already done the first major downsize necessary. We notice the white Chevy vans that we pass on the road with exclamations of “VANABODE!”

And yet, here we are still waiting.

You, too?

Are you in that place of “it isn’t here yet” – “why is this taking so long” – “what else do I have to do?”

What is the path of least resistance to manifest any desire?

It isn’t in the “doing.” It is in the BEING.

It isn’t in trying to figure out how, or when, or where it will happen.

The path of least resistance is taking your focus off the manifestation, the end result, the destination; and instead, focusing on your state of being, your feelings.

As long as you keep your focus on what “isn’t here yet,” you are sending out negative vibrations of lack, of doubt. Desires are manifested when your energy is vibrating at higher levels of joy and happiness and appreciation.

But, it’s so hard, isn’t it? We’ve been imprinted with the instant gratification ideas of our society. It transfers easily to the manifestation process. It’s hard to be patient, and especially difficult to be happy while you wait.

This message from Esther Hicks explains exactly how we are pinching ourselves off from the BEING on the path of least resistance.

Esther Hicks reminds me to remember how we manifested our Big Foot camper. How the journey towards its manifestation was one that we could never have imagined.

I’m reminded to take my eyes off the “what isn’t here yet” and find delight and joy romping around on this journey to manifesting our Vanabode.

Will you join me in the fun? Will you practice (and it takes a lot of practice) to be happy now, BEFORE your dream becomes your reality? To be aware and appreciative of paths that are lighting up as you continue to wait?

When you have the certainty, the belief that all you desire is coming to you, when you stop being fixated on what your physical eyes reveal “what isn’t here,” you are on the path to least resistance. Your desire is making its way to you in ways you could never imagine or expect.

Wait … wait … wait.

But, not by throwing a temper tantrum like a two-year-old or raising your fist to the Universe as you cry out “Why is this taking so damn long?”

Wait with appreciation. Wait with delight. Wait with joyous patience and expectancy. Wait with the art of allowing people, places, events and rendevous!

[Tweet “The waiting IS the journey.”]
There is much to see and discover and learn and enjoy along the way.

As you travel on this amazing journey, there is always more to learn about who you are and the amazing power of deliberate creation you have within you.

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Here’s to your journey (and ours)!

Trisha Barnes
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Emotional honesty is the key to changing your beliefs.

The Freedom of Emotional Honesty

On November 18, 2015June 4, 2016 By Trisha BarnesIn Personal GrowthLeave a comment

There is great freedom that comes with emotional honesty …

with allowing yourself to feel what you are feeling without trying to mask the negative feelings with a smiley face sticker.

Law of Attraction teaches the power of positive thought, but, too many people miss the real truth of this. And so, they mask their negative feelings by pretending to be happy, carefree and joyful…

expecting life to deliver nothing but what is pleasing and desirable,

while deep inside the nagging pain and hurt, anger and frustration digs its roots deeper into your subconscious beliefs.

These negative feelings are information to guide you, to teach you, to help you recognize that what you desire in life is not YET aligned with the beliefs you have about that desire.

The Law of Attraction is true in that your reality mirrors back to you what you believe. But it has been the mistaken idea of many students of the Law of Attraction that thinking and feeling positive at all times is the secret.

The secret that many have missed is emotional honesty at all times, in all situations, with everyone.

It’s the life of the GREAT PRETENDER who wouldn’t dare allow himself and herself to feel what they are really feeling as they experience undesirable circumstances and events in their life.

(ALERT! Life is not a smooth sailing vessel. You WILL face rough waters … you will ride the wild roller coaster of emotions.)

You are human, you feel pain, you feel sad, you feel anger, you feel worthless at times. It’s not who you are, it’s just how you are feeling.

[Tweet “Emotional honesty is your ticket to freedom, the gateway to manifesting all that you desire in life.”]

It is what Greg Kuhn teaches in his book “Grow a Greater You.”

In this recent interview with Greg, he shares more of what he has learned about emotional honesty, about listening to learn, about pain and suffering.

To fully grasp what Greg shared in this video, read and study and learn from his book “Grow a Greater You.”

Discover how to use emotional honesty to grow into new beliefs – starting from where you are right now…

no matter how depressed or desperate or low you are feeling.

Your birthright is to be happy, joyful, confident, and abundant.

Start your journey to that ecstatic state of being by allowing emotional honesty to teach you and guide you.

You deserve it!

Trisha
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Two Obstacles to Manifesting Your Desires

On September 10, 2015June 5, 2016 By Trisha BarnesIn Personal Growth, Vanabode Dream2 Comments

What are the two obstacles to manifesting your desires?

I know how frustrating it is to do your darnedest to manifest all that you desire and not “see” the results … been there, done that many, many times.

The fun part of manifesting your desires is the visualization of all that you desire to be, do and have in life. You become like a kid again, at first, your imagination conjures up EVERYTHING you’ve ever wanted, ever dreamed of – kind of like writing a long letter to Santa … a really, really long letter.

That’s the fun of it; well, it’s fun IF

1. You believe there are endless possibilities awaiting you

2. You have an unlimited account with the Universe

3. You can “feel” as it it’s already done for you

More on that later. Let’s get to the two obstacles that stand in your way. Here they are in all their shining glory, thing one and thing two:

LETTING GO OF HOW

LETTING GO OF WHEN

Let’s break it down in simple terms so you can begin to see how we muck up the manifestation process.

We’re all sorta control freaks about our lives. We are used to taking action to solve problems and get what we want.

For example, from early childhood it began …

You learned that you needed to study hard to get good grades.
Heck, you learned that you needed to stand and sit still to keep the teacher happy.
You then learned that you needed to go to college in order to get a good job. (we’ll discuss this fallacy in another blog post)
Then, you got your degree and landed a good job. (WHEW!)
Then, you learned that you had to work hard to get a raise or a promotion.
You’ve learned that in order to have a trim body, you need to work out.
You’ve also learned that you have to eat right in order to lose weight.

So, your programming from birth has been this: you do the work to receive the blessings, the praises, the success that you desire.

Is it any wonder then, that as soon as you begin visualizing something that you truly desire, you immediately start to try to figure out how to make it become our reality?

You fall back on what our programming has taught you –

“If it’s meant to be, it’s up to ME! ME! ME!”

Letting go of the HOW is not an easy thing to do.

You want to be the captain and steer in the direction that you think is going to be the best route to manifesting your desires while the real Captain, the Universe, has a whole ‘nuther plan.

Letting go of the HOW is key to manifesting your desires.

Also, letting go of the WHEN is just as vital.

We measure everything in time.

HOW MUCH TIME WILL IT TAKE?
HOW LONG DO I HAVE TO WAIT?

Again, we’ve been programmed and have become the Give-It-To-Me-Now Generation. We expect instant gratification, push button results, overnight success, and lottery ticket winnings with everything in life.

Here’s the bad news about this programming. It causes you to contemplate and palpitate on the time factor when manifesting your desires.

When you question how long this is going to take to become your reality, you are calling up, firing up the familiar neural pathways to remind you of all the times you have felt lack, all the times you have felt there’s not enough of anything – time, money, love, food, happiness, etc.

When you question how long it’s taking, you are doubting. You are moving away from your desire rather than towards it.

And it’s back to the beginning.

Kinda like getting the “Go to Jail” card in Monopoly. Doubt sends you back to the beginning, to get clear, to get connected and to forget about time.

The Law of Attraction has been misunderstood by many people.

Yes, your thoughts create your reality.

But manifesting your desires is just not an act of “thinking” about what you want and SWOOSH it’s delivered to you as if you had rubbed a magic lamp.

That’s because there’s a whole lotta thinking going on in your mind, and you have a whole lotta programming to unwire.

If you’ve been following our posts, you know that we are waiting for our Vanabode to show up.

I AM like a little kid at Christmas – excited and expectant and EAGER for the Vanabode to arrive. I’ve got to be consciously aware of letting go, because we all battle the same programming that I mentioned above, and it’s so easy to get caught up in trying to connect all the dots.

Bruce and I have imagined and visualized continually over the past couple of months as we go through our daily routines … imagining how it would be to do the things we do every day as if we are in our Vanabode instead of in our pickup camper …

like making coffee,

charging our laptops and phones,

setting up a portable toilet,

using dry shampoo,

eating simply, and

conserving internet and battery power.

We’re living as if we were already IN the Vanabode and learning more everyday how to ease into this lifestyle.

We are ever SO READY … and are WAITING (without asking “how long” or trying to manipulate or finagle things to work out quickly.)

From my personal experience, and from what I’ve studied as a student and teacher of personal development, here is my guide to manifesting your desires:

1. Know clearly what you want to be, do and have

2. There are NO limits, no cap on your account – you can dream as big as you dare to dream.

3. You have to believe it BEFORE you see it … FEEL as if it has already become your reality.

4. LET GO of the how and when.

5. Celebrate everything with joy and gratitude.

6. Wait with awareness and unwavering expectancy.

It is your job to BE.
It is the job of the Universe to DO.

You BE the person you desire to be … NOW.
You BE the person doing the things you desire to do … NOW.
You BE the person having all the things you desire to have … NOW.

You BE, the Universe will DO it.

If this hadn’t happened many times in our life, I wouldn’t be writing this blog post.

Years ago, we began to visualize owning a camper so that we could live and travel fulltime. When people heard of our dream, they would ask, “when are you going to get it?”

Or they would want to know what our price range was so they could help us find the perfect camper.

We always answered, “We don’t have a price, we don’t have a savings account or will qualify for a loan. We will have the camper when it shows up.”

And it did! Miraculously! Out of the blue!

Our Vanabode will be here at the perfect time. It will be miraculous, too!

In the meantime, we continue on in the flow of letting go, surrendering, allowing and receiving … all from the ALL IN ALL.

I don’t know what’s on your list as you think about manifesting your desires … but I do know this. All that you dream of is waiting for you.

Here’s to your miraculous manifestations!

Trisha
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Losing Weight the Naked Hippies Way … Remove Clothes

On August 20, 2015June 5, 2016 By Trisha BarnesIn Personal Growth, Vanabode Dream2 Comments

Losing weight the Naked Hippies way?

Yes, it requires you to remove your clothes, and there are some who will think of running around stark naked! While, there’s great freedom in being a naturist, it’s not the subject here. (we’ll get to that in another blog post!)

We’ve been carrying around excess weight for nearly two years.

Lugging around all of this: (it’s shocking, really!)

Guess what happened as soon as I finished clearing out the excess clothes?

I tackled books, papers, junk drawers, kitchen utensils and pots, and all that bathroom/personal stuff that had accumulated.

The result? Losing weight! A TON OF IT! Two huge trash bags of clothes removed to donate; two huge, HEAVY trash bags of junk to throw away; dozens of books to take to the library, a table full of items to sell or donate; a huge box of papers to burn …

And it feels so goooooooood! There is a lightness to the camper now. Our clothes can breathe. Not every drawer and cabinet is stuffed to the brim.

Now we’re wondering how our gas mileage will improve!

This was phase one as we prepare to reduce and simplify our life to live and travel in our Vanabode home. There will be MORE downsizing when the official moving day arrives.

For now, we’re good.

That was how to lose weight the Naked Hippies Way!

This downsizing experience has served two purposes …

First, Losing weight! The physical result of eliminating unnecessary and unneeded items from our living space feels so freeing.

Second, reflecting and realizing how much “junk” we carry around in our minds that weighs us down and keeps us from living the best life possible.

This is losing weight the personal growth way:

We carry around fear, anger, jealousy, lack, low self-worth, bitterness, doubt and worry.

It’s a huge burden that if not removed, will drag you down to the depths of a hellish life, a life where you just exist, you just get by, go through the motions … survive.

When you take time to reflect on the limiting beliefs you have been carrying all your life, you’ll say exactly what I said when I viewed the massive amount of clothes piled in our camper …

“Who NEEDS this?”

You definitely don’t need the negative, limiting beliefs in your life.

They have been taking up space in your thoughts for too long. It’s time to downsize … to clear out the junk drawers of your mind.

Make space for joy and happiness and expectancy and hope and creation.

How?

By going within … through meditation, reflection, getting still. By listening, seeing and feeling your connection to The One, God, the Universe, the great I AM – whatever name you give to your higher power.

Meditation is something Bruce and I take time for every day. No matter what. It is making a huge difference in our life, in what we are seeing manifested.

It is the ONLY way to find yourself, your true self, your higher self, your Divine self. Go within in order to soar without.

There are many roads that lead you to your inner self. Find the one that works for you. The only “mistake” you can make is in not taking the time to meditate.

No matter what road you take, the journey will be remarkable. It’s the focus of our morning mindset call “Journey to Magnificence” where we read and study and discuss personal growth books and ideas.

The call is open to anyone seeking guidance and understanding and knowledge about the Law of Attraction, about manifesting your desires, about being and doing and having all that you dream of.

Join the call Monday thru Friday at 10 am Eastern. Dial in for the live call and discussions here 712-775-7085 pin 150703#.

Or listen to the replays here on Soundcloud.

Dig a little deeper – expand your knowledge and understanding even more with these recent articles which will give you more insight for removing limiting beliefs:

Let Go of the Past with Quantum Physics
Addiction Is In Every Life
Quantum Physics is the New Law of Attraction Paradigm
You’re Never Too Old, Too Young to Step Into Your Greatest Self

Always remember this, expressed so beautifully from “Winnie the Pooh”

Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
-A.A. Milne

You are MAGNIFICENT!

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Visualizing our Vanabode is not a visual thing

On August 5, 2015June 5, 2016 By Trisha BarnesIn Personal Growth, Vanabode DreamLeave a comment

Visualizing our Vanabode – is not a visual thing

There is a lot more behind the scenes to visualizing that which you desire than just looking at pictures on your vision board.

Oh, it’s fun to create a vision board and you should certainly do that. Find pictures of what you desire, places you want to see, things you want to do.

It’s a great way to perk up your imagination and increase your energies.

We just created a new vision board for our Vanabode dream. We found pictures of it inside and out so we have a clear picture of what it is we will have when it arrives.

But, the pictures don’t mean a thing if you don’t take time to FEEL them.

Now, I’m not talking about running your fingers over the pictures.

What I mean by feeling them is taking time to feel what it will feel like when you have that.

Nothing happens to create your desire when all you do is glance at the pictures on your vision board.

The work is in getting into the feeling of owning it, experiencing it, seeing it … BEFORE you physically see it.

It’s believing before seeing.

That kind of believing takes some work so that the thing that you desire becomes so real to you, it’s as if you already have it, as if you have already experienced it.

It helps to think of it as a movie that you are watching.

For example, with our Vanabode desire …

The movie starts with moving day. I see us transferring our belongings to the Vanabode. We’re laughing and having fun making everything fit just right. It feels satisfying that we have simplified our life even more now and as we make the final preparations. We giggle like a couple of teenagers getting away with making out on the back porch.

The next scene is driving away in our Vanabode, waving goodbye to our friends, hitting the road. We crank up the stereo and sing along to our CD of roadtrip freedom songs … first song is “Freebird” of course!

It is exhilarating to be free, to be traveling in this Vanabode without worries about it breaking down.

We love the ease and assurance of being able to pull into any parking space, anywhere. We absolutely love parking along a river or lake and opening the back doors to enjoy the view. We feel at ease driving through big cities.

visualizing-our-vanabode — Gazing at the moon from the back of our Vanabode is going to be one of the most amazing experiences

Next scene, we’re driving across the country from Arkansas, through Missouri, Illinois, Indiana … on our way to the East coast. We are carefree, we are happy. I’m excitedly busy capturing pictures of the beautiful landscapes we see. We stop for the scenic overlooks, the interesting little towns and museums … this is how we live and what we love to do.

visualizing-our-vanabode — Everywhere we look, there is beauty and wonder

Next scene, we are in Maine and it’s 4 am … we’re sitting on a boulder on Cadillac Mountain, waiting to be the first to see the sunrise in the U.S. My heart swells with adoration for this beautiful moment, for being right here right now and I’m giddy with excitement.

Cadillac-Mountain-sunrise — I’ll be the first to see the sunrise in the U.S. at Cadillac Mountain

Now, we’re traveling through the fall colors that spread for as far as we can see. Our mouths drop open in wonder of the spectacular masterpieces our Creator has given us. Every turn of the road reveals another magnificent view. We travel down country roads and drive under canopies of red and gold and orange. We stop to walk among the trees and stand in awe of the beauty of nature.

visualizing-our-vanabode — Country roads, back roads, the roads less traveled … that’s our route

We travel at our own pace, stopping when we choose, pulling over when we’re tired or want to take a trail that we see marked.

We are energized by travel, by the open road. We are happy and joyful and fully alive at living this simple lifestyle that is rich in experiences.

We wake up each morning with eager expectation for a fantastic day of travel. We rest so well in our comfortable bed. I get up each morning and easily make coffee on our little propane stove. We find a spot where we can quickly do our T5T yoga exercises.

Our mobile internet device keeps us connected so that I can continue to blog about our adventures and efficiently and effectively do whatever marketing I need to do for our business – from wherever we are parked.

We fall asleep each night feeling immensely grateful for all that we have, all that we are able to do.

visualizing-our-vanabode-dream — We LOVE our life!

That’s the movie I play over and over and over again. When I look at our vision board, I start the movie and live it with as much feeling as I can.

It is becoming more and more real and that’s how visualizing works. The more you can FEEL, the closer you are to creating and manifesting what you desire.

It is feeling as if your prayers have been answered.

Of course, you can do this same visualizing process with any desire. The key is to be specific instead of general. The more specific, the more the energy moves into alignment.

The following excerpt from an Esther and Jerry Hicks workshop sums up the visualization experience I’ve just shared with you, and I’ve taken the liberty to add our Vanabode desire to her words:

It’s going to be so fun to now watch the Universe deliver a path to me to help me to get into this Vanabode. Even though I don’t physically have the van yet …I can FEEL the universal forces lining up to bring me this experience. I can feel that I have captured the experience of this. I can feel that vibrationally it has happened within me. I can feel that I have come to match what’s in my vortex.

I can feel that I have been putting so many pieces into this vortex and I can feel that it’s already framed up for me. I can feel that the cooperative components have been assembled and I can feel that with this effort that once I got rolling that I made it into the vortex. I can feel now that this is a real probability.

This doesn’t feel like this is something that someone else is creating, it doesn’t feel like something I’m removed from … it feels viable and vivid and real to me. I know that I am the creator of my own reality and I so look forward to my time in this materialized machine, but meanwhile, my attention to it and my expectation of it is going to help me to feel the way I feel right now.

I feel vital and alive and assured. I’m happy that now I’ve finally talked myself to be a cooperative component. I’m feeling confident, even a little cocky! I’m going to watch for the opportunity that the Universe is going to offer me. It’s going to come, along with many of the other things that I’ve been reaching for.

Visualizing is a powerful way to manifest your desires.

Just make sure you feel the reality of whatever you desire as you visualize.

Maybe I should coin a new word … feelization!

What desire are you visualizing? Can you feel it now, BEFORE it is here?

Trisha

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