The Genie. The
Birthday Candle. The Dandelion. The Wishing Well. The Wishbone.
The Fairy Godmother. The
Eyelash. The Star.
Humans make many wishes upon on all of these things.
WHY?
Is it just pure entertainment and fun by way of a little
hope and magic? Is it childhood
wonder? Superstition? Is this a learned behavior from your family by
way of generational transference?
ON THE OTHER HAND, Is it just social convention?
Regardless of wishes and why they are made, there is no
denying that wishing is part of human existence and it is what drives the human
psyche and soul toward something that has meaning.
- What is your wish?
- What do you invest in your wish?
- Is your wish a hope, or a dream or a goal?
- Is your wish personal, professional, or global?
- The bigger question…. Have your wishes come true?
- Do you still have unfulfilled wishes?
- What is your perspective on wishes? Do you believe in sending them out into the Universe?
Still, an even bigger
question:
Do your wishes and
their outcome affect more than just YOU?
Deeper still… how do
you differentiate a wish for humanity with collective consciousness and a wish
that affects you and your own world in terms of intention, control,
surrendering, and…OUTCOME?
Let’s take a wide-scope lens look at this for a moment. We need to acquire some perspective from a
higher viewpoint to gain a better understanding of how wishes attach to energy
fields in The Universe.
WISH vs. INTENTION
Okay, as you examine this idea of Wish vs. Intention you may
believe you see how one appears passive and one appears active. But is
this actually true?
Both wishes and intention have energy.
Wishes themselves may have intention and they can be
intertwined, but the key is to understand how they either can work cohesively
together in unison or if they are definitely separate in energy based on the specific
wish or the specific intention.
YES, that is the key...
BEING SPECIFIC vs. BEING VAGUE.
To clarify, write your wish down on paper. Look at it.
Does writing it down, now make it real?
How vague is it? How
specific is it? Did you generalize or
did you state specifically by target what it is you wish for?
When you see a wishing well, or a shooting star, or even
make a birthday wish as you blow out candles, chances are you do not make
wishes as long, detailed, and specific as you would if you wrote them down. Usually most wishes are vague, unless of
course you are an expert at manifesting wishes.
THE POINT: It is
harder to hit a bulls-eye when you are not aiming at anything specific – rather,
your arrow can land on the target, but not on the bulls-eye.
Need an example?
A soon-to-be graduating college student blows out the
candles on his birthday cake as he wishes for success.
The Universe has a question: “Success in what? That’s so vague.”
The student does not know to provide an answer.
So the next day, the weekend is here. He is doing laundry. He finishes it. It is the first time his clothes did not
fade, shrink, or wrinkle and he did not throw his red T-shirt in with the load
of whites to turn everything pink.
The Universe says, “Okay, you are a success – you did
laundry perfectly like you’ve never done it before at the dorm.”
The student thinks his birthday wish did not come true to
get the opportunity to get the dream job he wanted.
Key moral here… he was not specific with his wish.
His human will ignore this regular ‘success’ because the
initial INTENTION was not to be successful at laundry.
He also could have had another wish for success with his
thesis or being approved for a car loan or anything else. He may ‘assume’ The Universe knows exactly
what success he desired, even if he did not articulate it.
So let’s say you wish for happiness.
“Happiness… okay, I’ll make you happy by turning the traffic
light green all the way through your drive today, because I know you always get
frustrated getting a string of red lights, so voila’ done… I am the Universe and I made you happy.”
How we define our ‘wishes’ is key to understanding the root
of the wish and what it is that is desired. For some people, happiness actually
means inner peace and peace of mind. For
others happiness is freedom.
Are you getting the picture?
How do you define happiness?
You can find happiness having a puppy lick
your face, or winning a scratcher ticket or finally getting your coffee made
correctly by your local barista. For
others happiness is a clean bill of health being cancer-free or finding their
soul mate or finding out they are not getting an increase on their property
taxes.
Being specific with your wishes prevents vague energy from
entering your energy channel of intention to help improve the way energy
transcends.
Is your wish more than just a thought?
Have you now begun the manifestation process because you
wrote it and made it real, more than just a thought, even if you know sometimes
thoughts can manifest into reality?
Our wishes can be dreams, but to make a dream a reality all
depends on the dream.
Everything we do as humans on this planet involves some sort
of work or at the very least some sort of participation in the process. It is not about being passive.
Goals and dreams both involve action, not just tossing
something out into the Universe with you sitting on the couch eating bon bons.
What we need to understand further is the idea that our
participation cannot always go in the extreme either, as it may have
limitations.
CONTROL vs. SURRENDERING
Can we control our wishes?
Or must we completely surrender them to chance?
Do we have a say as to if they come true or not?
When we wish (let us use tossing a coin in a fountain or
well for example) – the idea is to ‘surrender’ it and put it out there. Some people think ‘if it is meant to be, it
will happen’ for that is how they perceive wishes.
The other people who examine it from the perspective of
needing to feed more energy into the wish to manifest it have a different take
on wishing.
This perhaps is the most confusing part of a wish, because
there is this thing called FREE WILL.
Free will can affect a wish if your wish involves other people.
This gets complicated, particularly if say your wish is for
someone to get well, heal, or overcome something, for example.
This is NOT to be
confused with prayer. People are very
specific in prayers. That is a whole
other blog… so let us get back to
the subject of wishes.
You may put all your energy and highest, greatest intentions
in that wish for the best outcome, but your wish does involve someone else’s free will to either align with your
wish or if they choose to surrender because they decided to accept what the
outcome would be, that’s a different story.
The reality is that this could happen even if your wish for
the highest good and greatest good may come with the most perfect, purest intention
of the best outcome.
Our test as humans is to sometimes accept another human’s
free will if that is their choice – However, if they have no knowledge of your
wish, then can you honestly say there is choice at all?
It's like being a benched athlete and wishing the coach would put you in the game, but the coach is not a mind reader and The Universe believes you're just grateful to be on the team, which you are... but if you have other wishes you may need to articulate them clearly.
In this case, wouldn't it be best for the athlete to actually talk with the coach directly? Therefore, wishes aren't necessary... action is required.
DREAMS vs. GOALS
Where we humans get caught up is in this “Do I do
something?” or “Do I not do something” spinning cycle of active vs. passive in
the wish vs. intention energy circus.
It is a fine line… and it is not always clear to see whether
you do something or do not do something.
This is where we define whether it is a WISH/DREAM vs. A
GOAL.
GOALS and DREAMS require action. Wishes only do IF THEY ARE ATTACHED TO A
DREAM.
Elementary example:
You are a child in school wishing and hoping your homework will be done
vs. you are a child who did their homework wishing for the best outcome for the
grade.
Adults somehow believe passivity and letting go means
everything will come to them when they wish.
This is confusing, because of destiny and highest good. You can wish…. However, if you are tied to a
specific outcome, and it does not happen, there is a bigger plan in the works
to give you an even better outcome than you could have orchestrated yourself.
This is the reason for this wide-lens look I am presenting
right now, so you can SEE.
GOALS, TASKS, and
working toward a DREAM:
Sometimes, we can do all the things we think we need to do
to try to make something happen.
Nevertheless, this is where you have to get honest with
yourself… brutally honest.
- Have you actually tried every option?
- Have you put in the work?
- Is there anything else you can do?
- Does any part of your wish involve communication?
- If so, have you been clear with your communication with your intention, wish or request? Have you been extremely specific with actual words to be clear?
This is particularly true with global action.
As Mother Teresa said, “We
know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the
ocean. But if the drop were not there,
the ocean would be missing something.”
If we take this concept in making your global wish come
true… you are contributing toward the greater good, helping the wish along.
Will you see it in your lifetime? This remains to be seen, however, you are not
just sitting back waiting for things to change.
This then could be considered as a wish WITH a goal working
together in unison.
Humans additionally become stuck when it comes to context of
wishes, dreams, and goals. You can say
to The Universe, “I wish for my dreams to come true.”
The Universe is saying, “Oh yeah? Which ones…the ones you wanted when you were
five years-old or the ones you have now?”
Laugh. I know someone
who said as a child that she wanted an iguana.
She never got the iguana as a child, but as an adult, when she opened
her front door one day to take out the trash, there was an iguana on her
doorstep.
At this point, she is just glad she did not wish for a lion,
rhino, or grizzly bear.
We need to identify whether your dreams are goals. There is a difference. Here is where there is
also a fine-line dance of passive vs. active, and control vs. surrendering.
When it comes to life goals, you are not the only
participant even if you are acting alone.
This is where it gets more complicated.
There is the catalyst position. You may or may not be able to actually
achieve something specific, because it is not up to you, but it is up to you to
merely show up or participate, not necessarily be the one to take action.
You could be the inspirational catalyst; you can be the nudge,
connector, or supporter to help others.
So by way of ‘being part’ of something bigger than yourself, even in
your small role, you have a role in the larger picture…. i.e. back to Mother
Teresa’s drop in the ocean quote.
Some dreams and/or goals involve luck, timing, being open,
opportunity, participating in the process or not participating in the process
(choices we make here too, affect bigger picture of the Divine which is a plan
larger than we are).
Granted all situations require effort… even if the effort is
being.
This may be toughest to digest for doers, movers and
shakers, because it means surrendering control.
For example, you can create something and work like crazy to make
something successful, and do everything possible, but if it was not designed
for that purpose, you do not have control over this. Sometimes your attempt or effort will spur
something else and that was either a practice run, to prepare you for the
higher outcome of your wish.
YOUR TIME vs. THE UNIVERSE’S
TIME
Well, you keep hearing me say time is not real. The above ‘Your Time vs. The Universe’s Time’
is proof of that statement, much like the iguana on the doorstep. There was no concept of time in delivering
the iguana wish. The iguana showed up on
The Universe’s timeline, not by that of the one wishing for the iguana. Heck,
maybe the iguana did not even want to have any part of the wish and had wished
to be in Tahiti rather than on the doorstep in a residential area.
This is not to say that now that you are forty, you will be
an astronaut or some superhero – though you could introduce the idea of space
to a group of students or be a superhero at a charity volunteering or something. Context of the original wish may be altered.
The context of wishes WITHIN the “concept of time” plays a
lot with the idea of wishes coming true, just as much as specific
communication, work, control or surrendering.
Other people can and may present opportunities; while others
may simply play a role in the bigger picture of said wishes.
If your wishes are narrowed down to something more personal
in relation only to you and your life and personal world, and not the whole
world, sometimes you don’t have much control over that either. In this case, all you can do is show up to do
what you can. From here, you surrender
the rest like a wish. This could apply
family situations, friendships or relationships where you need resolve or
repair, or communicative evolution for transformation and change. Many families deal with stubborn relatives
who will not go to a doctor for instance, or deal with confrontation on an
issue.
Wishes in this realm are nice in context, but this falls
into the category of pro-active communication and work with some hope and open
windows. Here, you hope the resistant
ones will step into and go through for the desired outcome… particularly for choices,
which are part of a bigger picture for their own greater good. Though it is important to remember now, wishes
here step into the free will zone involving other people.
As for you, the person, the human … you have control over your
mind, heart, and soul and your desire to have goals, aspirations, dreams, and
wishes.
How you attach yourself to either the manifestation of the
above or the surrendering to destiny depends on your personal point of view
with what you want to put out there.
When we honor who we are from the core value place at the
start, we then get to exercise our own free will to take a chance with
proactive energy, actions taken, persistence to try to make a conscious move
toward what we seek.
We also can surrender, have hope, faith, and belief in
something bigger than who we are to take hold at bringing the divine plan for
our life into shape regardless of what we do or do not do.
How we look at life depends on our lens. My hope is that I’ve provided a wide enough
of a view for you to see what you need to see as you put your purest heart and
intention in what it is YOU want and choose to do.
In closing, I will specifically say that I wish for you to
find peace in your heart; however, YOU define that to be. I wish you the kind of success based on your
personal definition of what that means. I
wish you the kind of happiness from your scope of daily optimism, so you can
find joy in whatever you encounter, to feel empowered by positive,
productive, and proactive thoughts and feelings. I wish for you to share this blog with your
family, friends, co-workers, and your followers on whichever social network
that got you here to read it in the first place, so others can join you AS YOU… MAKE A (specific) WISH.
Namaste.
