Energy of Attraction

The Energy of Attraction

Day 1 The Nature of Desire

Centering Thought:My life moves forward through desire

Todays MantraI honor the universal power of desire.

Message of the DayYou are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

Deepak:Right this minute, what do you want? It seems like a simple question. You might answer, I

dont really want anything right this minute, but every cell in your body wants to survive and thrive, seeking the nourishment that it requires. Your heart wants to beat, your lungs to breathe, yourblood wants to flow through your veins. The circle of life is about desire. In natures scheme, thereis abundance for every cell to survive and thrive and this is true on the personal level too. Like yourbody, you, as an individual inherently strive to be nourished. In order to thrive, you naturally desiremore good things that create fulfillment. Security, vitality, success, love, joy and inner peace. In this 21 day meditation experience, you will learn to connect with natures deepest source of nourishment and abundance.

On this journey, you will practice the art of making desires come true by using your awareness to produce the results you want. The circle of desire begins inside whenever you have a wish, dream, hope or intention. There is an inner intention. From this seed, you want to bring something desirable to you. Will it happen or will you fail to get the outcome you want. The secretlies in knowing how to close the circle of desire so that your inner intention leads to an outer result. In here, and out there look like separate worlds but there is a traditional wisdom in every culture that says that inner and outer are connected. A thought, if it is powerful enough, can create a change in outer circumstances. Something you dont want can go away. Something you do want can come to you.

What closes the circle of desire, connecting inner and outer reality is the energy of attraction. This will be the focus of our meditations together. Like every cell that attracts nourishment to itself, youre always attracting natures abundance. But if your awareness is constricted, if you have conflicting desires that cancel each other out, if your past conditioning keeps attracting negativity, you need to use the energy of attraction in a new and better way. The energy of attraction gets channeled through any and every intention. The process isnt mystical but there are layers of desire and attraction.

If you ask a waiter in a restaurant to bring you a glass of water, your inner intention becomesmanifest. This is something we all do every day and youve probably experienced a deeper layer ofattraction as when you think of someone and unexpectedly they call on the phone. The energy of attraction is built into your desires and at the deepest level, where you create your most personal, cherished desires, you can achieve incredible results.

We will go deeper than wanting material things because our deepest desires are the most life supporting. They give our lives meaning and at the same time they harness more of the energy of attraction. This meditation experience provides the tools and understanding to benefit you physically, mentally and spiritually. I hope you feel inspired.

As we prepare to meditate together, lets take a moment to consider our centering thought, my life moves forward through desire. My life moves forward through desire. Now take a moment to make yourself comfortable and close your eyes. Become aware of your breath and just breathe -slowly and deeply. With each breath, allow yourself to become more deeply relaxed. Nowgently introduce the sound, Eecha Shakti Namah. This mantra helps you connect with natures primal impulse of creative desire. As you repeat the mantra, feel yourself connecting to the universal power to create through desire. Repeat the mantra silently to yourself, Eecha Shakti Namah. With each repetition feel your body, mind and spirit open and receive just a little more. Whenever you find yourself distracted by thoughts, noises or physical sensations, simply return your attention to silently repeating the mantra, Eecha Shakti Namah. Eecha Shakti Namah. Eecha Shakti Namah. Please continue with your meditation for about 10 minutes. Eecha Shakti Namah. Eecha Shakti Namah. Eecha Shakti Namah. Just mentally now. Eecha Shakti Namah. Eecha Shakti Namah. Eecha Shakti Namah. Release the mantra. Continue to sit restfully, ihnaling and exhaling slowly. When you feel ready, open your eyes.

As you continue with your day, contemplate the centering thought, My life moves forward through desire. My life moves forward through desire. My life moves forward through desire.

Journal Questions1. What are your hopes and desires for this 21-Day Meditation Experience? Write these intentions in your journal, then take a moment to picture each intention as a seed you are planting today, within your consciousness. Your meditations and journaling each day are the water and sunshine they will need to grow.

2. Think of all the different types of desires you have during the day for food, admiration, intimacy, comfort, influence. List all of them. What do these desires have in common? What similarfeelings of fulfillment do they share?

3. Write down next to your desires all the ways in which those desires shape your thoughts and behavior. Think about how you would like to make manifesting your desires easier, less morally conflicted, and less selfish.

4. Reflect further on todays experience

Day 2 The Spirit of Desire

Centering Thought:My desires make me feel alive

Todays MantraI am the essence of life

Message of the DayToday we will look at desire as the primal creative energy within us, and at the heart of

creation. Desire is the feeling force of life itself. As we tap into this powerful life force, we want to

make sure that what we manifest is not only positive and life-supporting in our lives, but for everyone else as well. To do that, we need to create from the level of intelligence of Nature that already upholds and harmoniously integrates all the diversity of the cosmos.

This isnt just the easiest way to manifest desires that are beneficial for everyone its reallythe only way to create in a way that that is in accord with all the other forces of evolution. Our silentawareness is aligned with the infinite intelligence of Nature, and our small ego mind isnt. Today in meditation we will contact that source of desire the source of thought, deep within awareness. Then as desire sprouts from that silence, it will attract all the nourishment and guidance it needs to manifest.

Deepak:In order to master the art of desire, the first step is to be judgement-free. Many people feel

guilty about their desires or think they want more than they deserve but in reality, desire is natural and necessary to life. We all want to attract more of the good things in life. The energy of attraction is neutral you can attract positive or negative results. Our goal is to make every result positive, life-supporting and powerful.

The highest desire you can have is to grow and evolve. Nature is constantly expanding. An ancient Indian scripture says, I am one. May I become many. May I grow forth.

The desires, wishes and intentions you have every day are what turn the present into the future, creating new things along the way. So desire is a creative act. In Sanskrit, the name for desire is Kama and from the ancient transcripts it was considered neither bad or unspiritual. The fulfillment of desire is one of the main goals of life; in fact, taught to every child in the traditional Indian household.

Once you stop judging your desires, you will realize that youre designed to fulfill your intentions. You begin to ask for what you want. You do what it takes to get what you want. You plan your whole life around desires. Therefore, becoming skilled at achieving your intentions is a worthy goal. It doesnt make you a selfish or greedy person.

When negativity is attached to desire, intentions can run into trouble. They become misguided or harmful, desperate, frustrated and unfulfilled. These problems dont arise when desireis self-supporting. Without desire, our existence would be flat, inert and uninteresting. So the second step in harnessing the energy of attraction is to celebrate the fact that you have wishes, hopes, dreams and aspirations. Inside your awareness lies the means to make any possibility come true.

As we prepare to meditate together, lets take a moment to consider our centering though, My desires make me feel alive. My desires make me feel alive. Now lets prepare for our meditation.

Make yourself comfortable and close your eyes. Become aware of your breath and just breathe, slowly and deeply. With each breath, allow yourself to become more deeply relaxed. Now, gently introduce the mantra, Rasa Hum. Rasa is the essential quality or emotional flavor of life. This mantra connects you with the vital energy of feeling of life itself. As you repeat the mantra, feel the flavor, feel the aliveness of your spirit. Repeat it silently to yourself, Rasa Hum. With eachrepetition, feel your body, mind and spirit open and receive just a little more. Whenever you find yourself distracted by thoughts, noises or physical sensations, simply return your attention to silently repeating the mantra, Rasa Hum. Rasa Hum. Rasa Hum. Continue with your mediation for about 10 minutes. Rasa Hum. Rasa Hum. Rasa Hum. Just mentally. Rasa Hum. Rasa Hum. Rasa Hum. Release the mantra and continue to sit restfully, inhaling and exhaling slowly. When you feel ready, open your eyes.

As you continue with your day, contemplate the centering thought, My desires make me feel

alive. My desires make me feel alive. My desires make me feel alive.

Namaste

Journal Questions1. Describe in your journal what your life would look like if you had no desires, no interests, no passions, no hopes or dreams or ambitions. This will help you to see clearly how desires give juice and joy to life.

2. Make a list in your journal of three situations in where your desire created a positive outcome inyour life that was even better than what you anticipated. Write down any ways in which the universe provided that you were not necessarily expecting.

3. The energy of desire is a powerful force that can develop a momentum and life of its own. Write about a time when you saw this power unfold in your own life. Like other forces of nature, we need to respect its power.

4. Reflect further on todays experience.

Day 3 The Source and Goal of Desire

Centering Thought:My true self contains every possibility.

Todays MantraMy Being is without beginning or end

Message of the DayYour true self is not only the beginning of desire, it is also the end, or fulfillment, of desire.

This infinite potential, energy, and intelligence of unbounded consciousness is the real energy of attraction. Today we will discover that we dont need to do anything, or go anywhere to access the energy of attraction. It is our own true self.

In todays meditation, we will awaken this energy of attraction within, and harness its powerto bring our desires to fulfillment. This activation of desire at its source sets the direction for our thoughts and actions to lead it toward its actualization. Attaining the goal of our desires brings an inner fulfillment and contentment that returns us again to our silent source of awareness.

Deepak:The energy of attraction is part of who you are but which part? The answer lies deep

within your awareness where your true self lies. Your true self is more powerful than any aspect of who you are because it links a desire with the ability to manifest the desire. Weve all experienced the difference between a shallow and a deep desire wanting to catch the latest hit movie isnt the same as wanting to be a good person. Wanting a better car isnt the same as wanting to find lasting happiness.

The secret of the true self is that the deeper your desire, the easier it is to manifest it. This is because the entire circle of desire is inside you. The dream begins in the same place where the dream comes true. When your desire is frustrated, the circle is broken. This can happen for many reasons from bad timing and wishful thinking to hardships and obstacles in your current circumstances. By meditating, you draw closer to your true self and when you fully identify with it,

you will fully experience the circle of desire. It will eliminate obstacles effortlessly. Yet even taking the first steps toward your true self will increase the energy of attraction in your life. Every other means of fulfilling desire is more difficult because you find yourself running out in the world, struggling to make things happen. As you chase after the goal because it is separate from you. At the level of the true self, no outcome is separate from you you are the source and the goal in one.

Realize that the energy of attraction is intelligent. It is different from other kinds of energy like electricity or magnetism. The energy of attraction organizes the whole path from desire to fulfillment. Just as nature fills a seed with everything it needs to grow, your true self fills your desires with what they need to manifest. In the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna says, Curving back onto my own nature, I create again and again. This is an expression of how desire remains in the self even when outer reality is involved in bringing you what you want.

As we prepare to meditate together, lets take a moment to consider our centering thought. My true self contains every possibility. My true self contains every possibility.

Now lets prepare for our meditation. Make yourself comfortable and close your eyes. Become aware of your breath and just breathe, slowly and deeply. With each breath allow yourself to become more deeply relaxed. Gently introduce the mantra, Ananta Swa Bhava. This mantra awakens your truth to the higher potentiality of your higher self. As you repeat the mantra, know and feel the unbounded possibilities you hold within your own consciousness. Repeat it silently to yourself. Ananta Swa Bhava. Ananta Swa Bhava. WIth each repetition feel your body mind and spirit open and receive just little more. Whenever you find yourself distracted by thoughts, noises or physical sensations, simply return your attention to silently repeating the mantra, Ananta Swa Bhava. Ananta Swa Bhava. Ananta Swa Bhava. Continue with your meditation for about 10 minutes. Anatna Swa Bhava. Ananta Swa Bhava. Ananta Swa Bhava. Ananta Swa Bhava. Just mentally. Ananta Swa Bhava. Ananta Swa Bhava. Ananta Swa Bhava. Release the mantra. Continue to sit restfully, inhaling and exhaling slowly. When you feel ready, open your eyes.

As you continue with your day, contemplate the centering thought, My true self contains every possibility. My true self contains every possibility. My true self contains every possibility.

Journal Questions1. Imagine three things you truly wish you could have in your life, but believe to be unattainable, so you have resigned yourself to not having them.

2. Write down the reasons why you believe these desires will not manifest.

3. Now list two creative ways in which Nature could arrange for you to get your desired wishes. Ifyou can imagine a couple of ways, the infinite intelligence can certainly make it happen when the time and circumstances are right.


Day 4 Effortless Creation

Message of the DayUsually, when we want to manifest a cherished wish or desire in our lives, our first instinct

is to act on that impulse. Action of course is necessary, but today we will learn to start with a different approach. To harness Natures infinite creative power, we need to release desire into the stillness of our Being. In todays meditation we will learn to let go of our intention, where it then

settles into the field of pure potentiality where all the laws of creation are ready to help manifest it.

This is the most effective way to manifest desires, and the simplest and easiest way to bring your hopes and dreams to life. That doesnt mean action and persistence arent also essential. They are, but they too come in after letting the seed of intention rest into the silence of your true self. Thisensures that your actions and focus will be supported and aligned with Natures intelligence, not separate from it.

Centering Thought:My desires are fulfilled from my true self

Sanskrit MantraMy desires have the power to manifest

DeepakStruggling to get what you want is not what nature intends. When you let good things be

attracted to you, manifestation is easy and enjoyable. The secret lies in having a desire and letting go. This is the state of detachment. Unfortunately, most people try to get what they want by being the opposite of detached. They have cravings, addictions, obsessions and fixations. They dwell on what they want over and over again. This brings up what seems like a contradiction. You do need passion to achieve your aspirations. You need action and often hard work to arrive at the goal. But if you desire from the level of the true self, these things bring you a kind of effortless joy. You can stand aside and watch the whole process unfold. Detachment isnt the same as indifference. When you let go, you arent saying I dont care what happens. You say youre open to whatever happens and understand you will know the next step to take.

The art of desire can be found in a single verse of the Bhagavad Gita. Perform action without regard to the fruits of action. This is detachment and joy in one because whatever happensyou will always be centered in your true self. Having your desire at the level of your true self and then releasing it is the key. Being centered in your true self you experience a quiet relaxed state of confidence. The ability to manifest what you desire allows you to let go so that your intention can enter the field of pure potentiality. From there, the energy of attraction naturally flows with ease and harmony. manifestation isnt the same as wishful thinking. Action is still required to manifest the life we want but we dont need to lose our silent center in the process. The silent center guides us into the things we need to do, weeding out the unneccessary busy work and struggle.

As we prepare to meditate together, lets take a moment to consider our centering thought. My desires are fulfilled from my true self. My desires are fulfilled from my true self.

Now lets prepare for our meditation. Make yourself comfortable and close your eyes. Become aware of your breath and just breathe, slowly and deeply. With each breath allow yourself to become more deeply relaxed. Gently introduce the mantra, Ahrah Kahrah. This mantra awakens the energy of creativity, transformation and materialization. As you repeat the mantra, feelthe activation of the forces of creation and manifestation inside you. repeat it silently to yourself, Ahrah Kahrah. With each repetition, feel your body, mind and spirit open and receive just a little more. Whenever you find yourself distracted by thoughts, noises or physical sensations, simply return your attention to silently repeating the mantra, Ahrah Kahrah. Aharah Kahrah. Continue with your meditation for about 10 minutes. Ahrah Kahrah. Ahrah Kahrah. Ahrah Kahrah. Just mentally. Ahrah Kahrah. Ahrah Kahrah. Ahrah Kahrah. Release the mantra. Continue to sit restfully, inhaling and exhaling slowly. When you feel ready, open your eyes.

As you continue with your day, contemplate the centering thought, My desires are fulfilled from my true self. My desires are fulfilled from my true self. My desires are fulfilled from my true

self.

Journal Questions1. Remember back to a time when you wanted something desperately, and you asked and you asked, but it didnt come to you. Then at some point you let go or forgot about it and soon after that,it came to you. Even though you let go of the desire, it was still in the back of your mind. As you write about this experience, consider how releasing your desire was instrumental to it manifesting.

2. We learned today that letting go of desire is the key to effortless manifestation. This is sometimes called detachment from desire. Think of a time when you tried to be detached about something you wanted and were unsuccessful.

Now, identify another situation where you wanted something that was not happening and you beganfeeling frustrated, yet you were somehow able to release the attachment and frustration with ease. As you write in your journal, compare this kind of frustrated detachment with the natural and easy state of detachment you experienced in the above examples. What was different when you stopped holding on to your desire?

3. Have you had a meditation experience of inner quietness? Write down what it felt like. During these moments, when your awareness stops thinking thoughts and moves into silence and stillness, you automatically release whatever desire you have this is true detachment. Write about the same experience in terms of letting go of what you were thinking. This is how you release a desire.


Day 5 The Fulfillment of Desire

Message of the DayTodays meditation addresses our sense of self-worth and its impact on fulfilling our

desires. Your true self your core consciousness, is divine. You are pure light, love, joy, and fulfillment. You deserve happiness and the fulfillment of your desires, because happiness and fulfillment are your essential nature.

In todays meditation, we will experience our inner selves and know our true worth. As our experience of our real self becomes stronger, so does our awareness that we are deserving of all thatis good. You dont have to do anything to be deserving you already are deserving.

Centering Thought:I deserve complete fulfillment

Sanskrit Mantra"I attract abundance from my true self

Deepak:We have a desire because we feel a lack. Just as hunger makes you eat when your stomach

is empty, there is a sense of need behind every desire. Need is double-edged. If its part of growing, expanding and evolving, need is good. Everyone benefits from the need to explore who they are, to find more love, to reach for the highest. But the other side of need is feeling that you, yourself are not enough that you need more things, more money, more food, more distractions because otherwise you feel empty. The energy of attraction would be weak if this is your

motivation; after all, how can a person with a bad self-image harness power?

At the level of your true self, you already feel complete. You are whole. The only thing the true self wants is to see you whole which involves growth, expansion and evolution. Just being yourself, you direct the energy of attraction where it needs to go. There is no need for massive will power. Because fulfillment is our true nature, our birthright, the energy of attraction is working for us in a positive direction. That is its natural tendency. But we make the decisions our personal choices define what gets attracted to us. If you feel unworthy or guilty about desiring good things, it means we do not know our true self.

Once set in motion, a desire brings more than one isolated result. All desires are woven together in our lives. A new car, a new love interest, a new faith each speaks to how we see ourselves. The self we identify with, and that is always changing. When we desire with conscious awareness, we are connecting to what the true self wants for us. In a word, the next thing you want is the best thing for you.

As we prepare to meditate together, lets take a moment to consider our centering though. I deserve complete fulfillment. I deserve complete fulfillment.

Lets prepare for our meditation. Make yourself comfortable and close your eyes. Become aware of your breath and just breathe, slowly and deeply. With each breath allow yourself to become more deeply relaxed. Gently introduce the mantra, Shreem Kleem Namah. This mantra affirms that you deserve the fulfillment of all your deepest desires. As you repeat the mantra feel that youre drawing divine abundance to your life by being deserving, worthy and whole. Repeat it silently to yourself, Shreem Kleem Namah. With each repetition, feel your body, mind and spirit open and receive just a little more. Whenever you find yourself distracted by thoughts, noises or physical sensations, simply return your attention to silently repeating the mantra. Shreem Kleem Namah. Shreem Kleem Namah. Shreem Kleem Namah. Continue with your meditation for about 10 minutes. Shreem Kleem Namah. Shreem Kleem Namah. Shreem Kleem Namah. Just mentally. Shreem Kleem Namah. Shreem Kleem Namah. Shreem Kleem Namah. Release the mantra and continue to sit restfully, inhaling and exhaling slowly. When you feel ready, open your eyes.

As you continue with your day, contemplate the centering thought, I deserve complete fulfilment. I deserve complete fulfillment. I deserve complete fulfillment.

Journal Questions:1. Make a list of the ways you might feel unworthy or undeserving of having your desires fulfilled. Its not important to know the source of these feelings just identify the feelings of unworthiness. Now write about how these feelings constrict your spirit and define your worth by your past actions instead of being based on your true nature.

2. Write about a time when you felt completely in the moment and you knew anything was possible. It could be an experience in meditation, or out of meditation during daily activity. Those feelings you had were from your true self the self that is not defined by your past, but by your own truth.

3. In your journal, write the line, My true self is and then add on all the descriptive phrases ofwhat your peak experiences feel like. It could be, liberating, effervescent, invincible, brilliant, wise, fun Then add, Therefore I deserve complete fulfillment.


Day 6 The Power of Attention

Message of the DayToday we will learn about the power of our attention and its role in making our wishes

come true. Attention is the conscious flow of awareness, and it activates the energy of attraction. If our desire is like a seed, then attention is the movement of nourishment that supports the growth of the seed into a fully mature plant. Our attention at the quiet levels of the mind provides direction and strength to our hopes and desires, so that they can become real.

Our meditation today deepens our attention so that it activates the energy of attraction at the most powerful level of the mind. With continued meditation practice, our attention is able to nourishour desires from inception to fulfillment.

Centering Thought:My attention activates my desires

Sanskrit Mantra:Unaboundedness is my true nature

Deepak:If you want a dream to come true, ita takes more than dreaming. The mind needs to focus

in a special way, using the power of intention. Electric current in the house can be strong or weak and the same holds true for our intentions. Whenever there is a problem with your electricity, it canexist anywhere along the line beginning at the power station. In the case of having an intention that comes true, the power source is attention.

What you pay attention to will grow. And if your attention is focused from the level of the true self, it can attract anything and everything to you. In a word, attention activates the energy of attraction. Every wish or desire is like a tiny seed which contains the blueprint for the tree that manifests from the seed. The seed of desire, which is also the seed of every intention, needs nourishment to grow. If you want a desire to manifest, here are some important ways to put the right attention on it.

Have a clear intention. Dont muddy it with compromises and excuses for why it wont come true.

Have positive emotions around your desire. Feel how good it will be to fulfill it. Believe that what you want is beneficial for you without any negative consequences to those

around you. Be prepared for any response the universe brings and be flexible about how you go from

there. Feel confident that hidden forces will come to your aid once your desire is released to the

universe.

Being able to use your attention in this way depends most of all on your state of consciousness. Desires that originate in the true self easily reach fulfillment. Desires that arise in an agitated, worried or confused mind will struggle to be fulfilled.

In meditation, you expand and deepen your awareness. The more this happens, the less effort is required to have successful intentions. When we allow our intentions to flow from the silence that is the basis of the mind, the energy of attraction automatically obeys what the mind desires.

As we prepare to meditate together, lets take a moment to consider our centering thought. My attention activates my desires. My attention activates my desires. Now lets prepare for our meditation.

Make yourself comfortable and close your eyes. Become aware of your breath and just breathe, slowly and deeply. With each breath, allow yourself to become more deeply relaxed. Gently introduce the mantra, Hum Sa. This mantra activates the transformative attention of pure awareness. As you repeat the mantra, feel the awakening of your powerful attention. Repeat it silently to yourself, Hum Sa. With each repetition, feel your body, mind and spirit open and receivejust a little more. Whenever you find yourself distracted by thoughts, noises or physical sensations, simply return your attention to silently repeating the mantra. Hum Sa. Hum Sa. Hum Sa. Continue with your mediation for about 10 minutes. Hum Sa, Hum Sa, Hum Sa. Just mentally, Hum Sa, Hum Sa, Hum Sa, Hum Sa, Hum Sa, Release the mantra and continue to sit restfully, inhaling and exhaling slowly. When you feel ready, open your eyes.

As you continue with your day, contemplate the centering thought, My attention activates my desires. My attention activates my desires. My attention activates my desires.

Journal Questions1. Attention is the nourishment that makes the seed of our intention grow to fulfillment. But with all the diversions around us, it is easy for our attention to be distracted. Write down some of the typical ways that you get distracted from your tasks during the day. How do these distractions diluteyour energy and attention to your task?

2. Write about a situation in which you were faced with a job that required your full mental focus, and when you were finally able to lock in your attention, you completed the task successfully and efficiently. This is the power of attention that manifests desires.

3. The best way to increase your power of attention is through meditation. Your attention on the subtle sounds of the mantra naturally expands the range of your attention beyond the superficial layer of the conscious mind. To support our meditation time, its important to limit outside distractions as much as possible. In your journal, write about additional ways you can minimize distractions during your meditation. For example, by turning off all phone and messaging notifications, moving your pet to another room, or asking your children or partner not to disturb youwhile you meditate.


Day 7 Your Deepest Desire

Message of the DayCongratulations! Today we complete the first week of our journey together. This week we

have learned about the power of our desires and how to use Nature to fulfill them. We have learned that happiness and fulfillment are our birthright, and that the most effective way to manifest our dreams is also the easiest way.

Today we discover that our deepest desire is for spiritual awakening, which is the state of fulfillment and completeness. All other desires are variations on this basic desire for actualization. Every desire is a fragment of our being that seeks awakening, completion, and wholeness.

Centering Thought:My deepest desire is for completeness

Sanskrit MantraI am pure bliss

Deepak:Congratulations for successfully completing the first week of our meditation experience.

Youve acquired the foundation for turning intentions into reality. Im sure there have been surprises along the way because this vision of effortlessly achieving what you want isnt like the conventional advice given by society.

Youve learned that the word in you is connected to the world out there which means that your intentions can flow from your true self to find fulfillment in every area of life. People may spend a lot of time and energy making their desires very very specific but to give any desire its power is how strongly its connected to the ground of Being, the true self.

Behind every desire, however small, is the energy of attraction which brings the outcome of desire. The energy of attraction is most powerful near the source. Just as electricity is most powerful when it comes out of the generator. Therefore, your deepest desires ar e the easiest to fulfill. No doubt this comes as a surprise since conventional wisdom holds just the opposite.

Your deepest desires can come true naturally and without struggle because your deepest desires are signals from your true self. The force of evolution in the universe supports whatever is true and promotes harmonious growth. The desires people spend the most time chasing after such as more money, a better job and a bigger home also employ the energy of attraction. But the path it follows is weaker and more indirect. Why? Because the focus is on the external goal, not on consciousness. This isnt to judge against getting a nicer life but when you pursue love, beauty, creativity, innovation, meaning and higher vision of life, the energy of attraction becomes much stronger. Its strength comes from wholeness the more whole you are, the more powerful your intentions. Its the same as seeing a whole picture of Niagra Falls or The Grand Canyon instead of the scattered pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. The picture is there in the scattered pieces but it is not whole enough to recognize,

A secret of the worlds wisdom traditions is that every single desire, no matter how small, is working toward one goal to make you more complete. Only through feeling whole will you feel fulfilled. Through meditation, you get in touch with the primal desire of wholeness, happiness and freedom. Let this be your personal vision which will also embrace every smaller, more specific desire along the way.

As we prepared to meditate together, lets take a moment to consider our centering thought. My deepest desire is for completeness. My deepest desire is for completeness. Now lets prepare for o our meditation.

Make yourself comfortable and close your eyes. Become aware of your breath and just breathe, slowly and deeply. With each breath allow yourself to become more deeply relaxed. Gently introduce the mantra, Ananda Hum. This mantra awakens the state of fulfillment that is your true self. As you repeat the mantra, feel the sense of completeness, the joy and sense of wholeness of your inner being. Repeat it silently to yourself, Ananda Hum. With each repetition, feel your body, mind and spirit open and receive just a little bit more. Whenever you find yourself distracted by thoughts, noises or physical sensations, simply return your attention to silently repeating the mantra, Ananda Hum. Ananda Hum. Ananda Hum. Continue with your meditation for about 10 minutes. Ananda Hum. Ananda Hum. Ananda Hum. Just mentally. Ananda Hum.

Ananda Hum. Ananda Hum. Release the mantra and continue to sit restfully, inhaling and exhaling slowly. When you feel ready, open your eyes.

As you continue with your day, contemplate the centering thought, My deepest desire is for completeness. My deepest desire is for completeness. My deepest desire is for completeness.

Journal Questions1. Write down two big desires you have for companionship in your life. Now add two desires for career. Finally, add two desires you have for your health. Now look at the list and write down what you believe the emotional outcome would be from getting that desire fulfilled. The common denominator for all these desires, and all desires, is happiness, contentment, or well-being.

2. When you realize that the feeling of happiness is the goal of all desires, then you understand that there are ways your desires can be completely fulfilled, even if the outcome differs from what you originally had in mind. Write about a burning desire you once had that was very specific, yet when it was fulfilled, it was different and perhaps better than what you had initially envisioned. What does this imply about not being too focused on details and remaining open to new options andpaths as they present themselves?

3. Review your previous six desires, then envision and describe the inner state of fulfillment and happiness behind each of those desires which is attainable, even if the outer details are different from the initial desire.


Day 8 The Royal Road to Manifestation

Message of the Day:Welcome to the second week of our 21-Day Meditation Experience. In the first week we

learned the role of desire in our spiritual fulfillment. This week we will focus on mastering the art of desire to manifest the quality of life we want.

We are always creating our world through our desires, but not always as successfully as we would like. That is why we need to master the art of desire. The reason most intentions do not manifest easily and quickly is because our mind cannot remain alert and attentive with the emergingintention and see it all the way through to its manifestation. To have conscious intention we need expansive, focused, and flexible awareness. Todays meditation will help awaken this alert consciousness within our desires.

Centering ThoughtMy intention holds the key to fulfillment

Sanskrit MantraMy unbounded awareness holds my pure intention

Deepak:The second week of our meditation experience is about mastering the art of desire. Both

skill and art are involved because even though everyone is born with desires, making them come true takes knowledge and experience. As we saw in week 1, every intention is tied to the energy of attraction. Our lives are filled with the things weve manifested. Manifesting is a lifelong process and yet some are much better at it than others. Society offers various ways to improve your ability to make a desire come true work hard, dont give up, nourish your passion, etc. There are also unspoken advantages such as being born to wealth, or having a high IQ which benefit only a few. But the worlds wisdom traditions look elsewhere for the secret of manifesting what you want. Conscious intention holds the key. By becoming more conscious, we make the creative process more efficient and more aligned to our highest purpose. Its all about expanded awareness. With expanded awareness, you automatically see more possibilities. You are not constrained by past conditioning, traumas and painful memories. You rise above the level of the problem to the level ofthe solution. Above all, you activate more of the energy of attraction. It took thousands of years forgreat sages, seers, guides and teachers to realize what Ive told you in a few sentences. You cant think, feel or force your way into expanded consciousness. Fortunately the path is simple and open to all. Meditation practice expands your awareness day by day, bringing better results in your outer life. Once your mediations make you comfortable and centered in silence, you can consciously desire and let go. Silent mind is where all possibilities are contained in seed-form waiting for the touch of intention to bring them to life. This is the basis for mastering the art of desire. You are thecreator and your life and fulfillment is your work of art.

As we prepare to meditate together, lets take a moment to consider our centering thought. My intention holds the key to fulfillment. My intention holds the key to fulfillment. Now lets prepare for our meditation.

Make yourself comfortable and close your eyes. Become aware of your breath and breathe slowly and deeply. With each breath allow yourself to become more deeply relaxed. Gently introduce the mantra, Chit Sankalpa. This mantra awakens consciousness within your desires or intentions. As you repeat the mantra, feel your light of awareness grow brighter and stronger in your thoughts. Repeat it silently to yourself. Chit Sankalpa. With each repetition feel your body, mind and spirit open and receive just a little more. Whenever you find yourself distracted by thoughts, noises or physical sensations, simply return your attention to silently repeating the mantra. Chit Sankalpa. Chit Sankalpa. Chit Sankalpa. Continue with your meditation for about 10 minutes. Chit Sankalpa. Chit Sankalpa. Chit Sankalpa. Just mentally. Chit Sankalpa. Chit Sankalpa. Chit Sankalpa. Release the mantra and continue to sit restfully, inhaling and exhaling slowly. When you feel ready, open your eyes.

As you continue with your day, contemplate the centering thought, My intention holds the key to fulfillment. My intention holds the key to fulfillment. My intention holds the key to fulfillment.

Journal Questions:

1. We are always manifesting our desires from one moment to the next. Simple acts of eating or shopping show us how a desire leads to action, achievement, and fulfillment. But when it comes to bigger desires, we are often less efficient because the action and achievement are outside our territory of influence and understanding. List three major desires that feel difficult to attain, and because of this you dont know the intermediary steps to fulfillment.

2. As we go deeper into our awareness in meditation, we are moving into more expanded, universal values. So as we go within, our territory of influence and knowledge is also expanding, connecting us to those unfamiliar resources and sources of knowledge that fulfill our desires. Write about an experience in which you had a situation that seemed hard to resolve, but after meditation or a period of prayer or reflection, suddenly came together easily after your awareness opened up.

3. Write about someone you know who has a sense of quiet calm about him or her, and somehow events just seem to naturally unfold for that person even if it isnt his or her area of expertise. That is the power of expanded awareness organizing life and fulfilling desires from an unseen place.


Day 9 The Matrix of Manifestation: Unbounded Awareness

Message of the Day:The skill of manifestation is in using our awakened self-awareness. There are three

components to this awareness: expanded consciousness, focused consciousness, and fluid consciousness. The unity of these three creates the matrix of manifestation. Today we will learn about the first aspect: unbounded awareness. This unbounded awareness is our silent, expanded self.It is the un-manifest potentiality from which everything emerges.

In todays meditation, we will open up to this still, pure self and begin to know it as a unifiedfield of infinite possibilities. In time our meditation experience will mature, and we will learn to think and act from this creative silence, while the mind remains quiet and calm. Our awareness stays unbounded even when the mind has an intention or desire.

Centering ThoughtI am pure unbounded awareness

Sanskrit Mantra

I see the unity behind diversity

Deepak:The art of desire is the art of using your self-awareness. The more you know yourself, the

more you can manifest what you want. THe energy of attraction fills an infinite reservoir. This is pure awareness before it flows out into specific desires. Think of pure awareness as a field of light extending infinitely in all directions. Here, every possibility can become manifest. Anything you can imagine becomes real here.

So how do you transfer a desire from this infinite field to your daily life? The spiritual tradition of India, known as Yoga, describes 3 elements that must come together. The first of these is the ability to go deeply into the mind. The closer you get to your source, the more powerful your intention will be. To experience unbounded awareness is called Sumadhi in Sanskrit. The name isnt important the important thing is to realize that unbounded awareness is real and you can contact it through meditation.

When you experience unbounded awareness, it will often seem that nothing has happened because were all used to bounded awareness which is filled with the thoughts, feelings, sensations and images constantly flowing through the mind. between each thought, however, is a gap of silence. In meditation, you dive into the gap and each time you do, you have tasted the experience of unbounded awareness. In this silence is the core of your existence.

Pure awareness may be silent but it isnt empty, and far from blank. Here, you are united with everything in creation. Here, also, youre completely wakeful, making you aware of who you really are. One can call this region of the mind the womb of creation or the matrix of manifestation.

As you say the mantra in mediation, there will be gaps where the mantra has disappeared butother thoughts havent entered. Its quite incredible from the viewpoint of the active mind that these seemingly insignificant blips of silence contain the true power of mind, but that is what the worlds wisdom traditions teach. Now you know the first ingredient necessary for manifestation. Unbounded awareness.

As we prepare to meditate together, lets take a moment to consider our centering thought, I am pure unbounded awareness. I am pure unbounded awareness. Now lets prepare for our meditation.

Make yourself comfortable and close your eyes. Become aware of your breath and just breathe, slowly and deeply. With each breath, allow yourself to become more deeply relaxed. Gently introduce the mantra, Om Hreem. This mantra dissolves the illusion between the self and the object of experience of thought. As you repeat the mantra, notice awareness becoming alert, still and unbounded. Repeat it silently to yourself, Om Hreem. With each repetition feel your body,mind and spirit open and receive just a little more. Whenever you find yourself distracted by thoughts, noises or physical sensations, simply return your attention to silently repeating the mantra. Om Hreem. Om Hreem. Om Hreem. Continue with your mediation for about 10 minutes. Om Hreem. Om Hreem. Om Hreem. Just mentally. Om Hreem. Om Hreem. Om Hreem. Release the mantra and continue to sit restfully, inhaling and exhaling slowly. When you feel ready, open your eyes.

As you continue with your day, contemplate the centering thought, I am pure unbounded awareness. I am pure unbounded awareness. I am pure unbounded awareness.

Journal Questions:1. Think of an experience you had when you were in nature, when your mind and entire sense of being felt connected to the rhythm and flow of its movement. It could be watching a river, the drifting clouds, or the surf coming onto the shore. Write about this experience in your journal and what that connection to nature felt like to you. This is the experience of connecting to universal self.

2. Consider another experience in nature, like the one you wrote about above, where you not only felt connected with the movement of nature, but you felt your thoughts, feelings, and actions were also a part of that grand unity the way a surfer becomes a part of the oceans waves as he rides them in. This is what it feels like to think and act within universal awareness.

3. There are other times in daily life that we can function within unbounded awareness even if we are not in nature. These are called peak experiences and they can happen anywhere, at any time. Athletes may experience them at certain moments in a game when they transcend their normal talents time slows and they feel calm inside, even with the roar of the crowd around them. Write about a peak experience you may have had in your life and how it impacted you.


Day 10 The Matrix of Manifestation: Focus

Message of the Day:Our meditation today deals with the second element of the matrix of manifestation: our

focus of attention. Just as focused light through a magnifying glass becomes more concentrated and powerful, the light of our consciousness also becomes more powerful when our attention is focused.This concentrated awareness awakens the dormant intelligence within our intention. It is like the

warmth that helps the seed of desire sprout.

Todays meditation will show us that the mind can experience deep focus easily, without strain or effort. When the mind is quiet, deep focus comes effortlessly and naturally. Unbounded awareness and sharp focus not only coexist, but they are mutually supportive, and together they form two of the three elements of awareness in the matrix of manifestation.

Centering ThoughtMy awareness is focused

Sanskrit Mantra

My universal awareness holds a single focus

Deepak:The second element in the art of desire is focus or concentration. When a magnifying glass

is held up to the sun, all of the suns light is focused into a point. In the same way, when you have aspecific desire, youre focusing pure awareness into a point.

The state of attention focused on a desire is called Harina in Sanskrit. Once again the word isnt important; whats important is the creative power that increases the more one-pointed you are. In everyday usage, concentrating the mind brings up images of hard work, the struggle to avoid distractions and keep your mind on the task at hand. But not in this case. If youre sitting in the silent depth of the mind, focus comes easily. Its as natural as any other thought. The magic is contained in the coming together of two things that seem like opposites. Unbounded awareness andfocused awareness. But they dont really contradict each other.

A laser beam is the sharpest, most focused light in existence and yet the power that creates itis generated by the total unbounded field of light. Now you know that the key to harnessing the energy of attraction requires being unbounded and focused at the same time. This is what happens in meditation. Unbounded awareness is the reservoir of possibilities. A desire is like the water you take from the reservoir, one visit at a time.

Mediation practice trains our attention to return to an easy focus, the mantra. After experiencing silent pure awareness in the gap where the mantra isnt present, in time, your mind will have this ability all the time and your thought will have full creative power.

As we prepare to meditate together, lets take a moment to consider our centering thought, My awareness is focused. My awareness is focused.

Now lets prepare for our meditation. Make yourself comfortable and close your eyes. Become aware of your breath and just breathe, slowly and deeply. With each breath, allow yourself to become more deeply relaxed. Gently introduce the mantra, Ksham Hoom. This mantra easily collects the diverse tendencies of the mind to a single impulse or point of focus. As you repeat the mantra, let your awareness easily draw into your silent center of attention. Repeat it silently to yourself, Ksham Hoom. With each repetition feel your body, mind and spirit open and receive just a little more. Whenever you find yourself distracted by thoughts, noises or physical sensations, simply return your attention to silently repeating the mantra. Ksham Hoom. Ksham Hoom. Ksham Hoom. Continue with your meditation for about 10 minutes. Ksham Hoom. Ksham Hoom. Ksham Hoom. Just mentally. Ksham Hoom. Ksham Hoom. Release the mantra and continue to sit restfully, inhaling and exhaling slowly. When you feel ready, open your eyes.

As you continue with your day, contemplate the centering thought, My awareness is focused.

My awareness is focused. My awareness is focused.

Journal Questions:1. The quality of focus that helps us manifest our desires is a focus that is easy, because it is enjoyable. Illustrate this to yourself by writing about a time in school where you had to focus on something that was not enjoyable maybe algebra or statistics. Now contrast that by writing about how easy it was for your mind to focus on something you liked. Perhaps it was a cute guy or new music a friend shared with you.

2. Attention stimulates the development of our desires. Write about three cases when your individual focus of attention made all the difference between success and failure. It could be an experience as a teacher, giving one-on-one mentoring to a student struggling to learn. Or it could be a situation in which you had a personal habit you wanted to change in yourself, but ignored for a long time, and were finally able to change when you gave it your attention and made it a priority.

3. The focus of attention at the deep and subtle levels of the mind is different than the mental focus of the active mind. This vague or subtle focus is similar to a mothers focused attention to her toddlers activities and needs, even while she is engaged in other tasks nearby. Write about an equivalent kind of soft focus you have used at work or home.


Day 11 The Matrix of Manifestation: Flexible Consciousness

Message of the Day:To be receptive to what the universe brings to us, we need to have an open, fluid, and

infinitely adaptable awareness. This flexibility of awareness is the third component of the art of desiring. Having fluid awareness means that attention does not get stuck on preconceptions about how the desire is supposed to manifest. By remaining receptive and free, awareness can move and adapt to whatever the intention needs in its development.

In todays meditation we will cultivate fluid awareness as our mind moves from mantra to thoughts to mantra, without friction or resistance. Flexible attention can move with any expression of the intention without losing focus or unboundedness.

Centering Thought:My awareness is infinitely adaptable

Sanskrit Mantra:My awareness is infinitely flexible and fluid

Deepak:There are three elements in making a desire manifest in the real world; weve covered two

so far and both are experienced in meditation. First you go to the infinite reservoir of pure awareness, Sumadhi. And then you focus your attention to one point, Dharana. Today, well over the third leg of the tripod which is flexible consciousness. This element allows you to receive with an open mind the results that the universe sends to you. In Sanskrit, flexible awareness is called Dhyana.

The energy of attraction brings a result fo every desire but sometimes the outcome is several

steps and takes awhile to unfold. Sometimes the result is unexpected or hard to recognize yet it is certain that desire is the input and there must be an output to close the circle. Achieving flexibility depends not on judging or expecting. Receiving is a state of openness. When youre flexible in thisopen, nonjudgemental way, you dont get stuck at any level of the mind. You dont resist the movement of desire as it develops, in other words, you go with the flow. Remember you are a creator and you create through desire. Creation is a dynamic process, always changing and flowing.

You cant predict where the energy of attraction is going to take you but you know you have set the process in motion and therefore you can flow with it. When you successfully flow with the energy of attraction, you arrive at full manifestation of your desire. This takes practice. During meditation, we develop adaptability by not holding on to the mantra if it starts to fade away or change. We dont resist thoughts, sensations or feeling as they arise. The state of not resisting cultivates a fluid consciousness that can move and remain centered at the same time. Once you have mastered all three areas of manifestation, you can truly create at will. In support of your deepest desires and highest aspirations.

As we prepare to meditate together, lets take a moment to consider our centering thought, My awareness is infinitely adaptable. My awareness in infinitely adaptable.

Now lets prepare for our mediation. Make yourself comfortable and close your eyes. Become aware of your breath and just breathe, slowly and deeply. With each breath allow yourselfto become more deeply relaxed. Gently introduce the mantra, Yoyatah Hum. This mantra awakens the quality of infinite flexibility and fluidity of pure awareness. As you repeat the mantra, know that your silent mind can flow anywhere without restriction or limitation. Repeat it silently to yourself, Yoyatah Hum. With each repetition, feel your body, mind and spirit open and receive just a little more. Whenever you find yourself distracted by thoughts, noise or physical sensations, simply return your attention to silently repeating the mantra, Yoyatah Hum. Yoyatah Hum. Yoyatah Hum. Yoyatah Hum. Continue with your meditation for about 10 minutes. Yoyatah Hum. Yoyatah Hum. Yoyatah Hum. Just mentally. Yoyatah Hum. Yoyatah Hum. Yoyatah Hum. Release the mantra and continue to sit restfully, inhaling and exhaling slowly. When you feel ready, open your eyes.

As you continue with your day, contemplate the centering thought, My awareness is infinitely adaptable. My awareness is infinitely adaptable. My awareness is infinitely adaptable.

Journal Questions:1. If awareness is stuck on preconceptions of what manifestation is supposed to look like, compared to what it is, then it wont be able to properly support the manifestation of desire at that stage. Describe in your journal a project or a person you know that was going through a transitional phase of growth that didnt fit your expectations, which made it difficult for you to support. Describe another instance in which you felt confidence in a project or persons new growth as a useful step, and remained relaxed and found it easy to be supportive. This is why fluid attention is essential for successful manifestation.

2. Flexibility is important for another reason: to support and nourish our desire, it must be able to penetrate the subtlest, finest structure of our thoughts and feelings like a super penetrating oil that can get in the smallest of places. Write about a situation where you were able to fully support a person or a project because you were able to stay flexible, attentive, and present all the while.

3. Meditation cultivates fluidity of awareness. Whenever the mind drifts off the mantra and we arethinking other thoughts, we have a choice to continue the thought we are having, or return to thinking the mantra. Going back to the mantra means our attention is flexible and not caught up in the emotion or interpretation of the thought. Give examples in your journal of both situations. Describe times when you got caught up in the thought and kept going with it, and other times where

you initially wanted to follow the train of thought, but easily returned to the mantra instead.


Day 12 Living Manifestation

Message of the Day:These last three meditations have given us the key ingredients for manifesting our desires

with awareness that is unbounded, focused, and fluid. This constitutes the art of conscious desiring. When we use this process to manifest our desires, we are supporting our intention from its beginning to its final fulfillment. With this constant connection to the source of infinite energy within, our wishes can be realized easily, without strain or effort.

In todays meditation, we will begin to experience how the dynamic creativity of our awareness effortlessly moves our thoughts toward fulfillment. If we use any mental strain or effort trying to manifest our intentions, it doesnt help the tension will only delay and constrict the manifestation of desire.

Centering ThoughtI manifest desire easily and naturally

Sanskrit MantraMy consciousness is both active and silent

Deepak:We are going deeper and deeper into how manifestation actually works. When all three

legs of the tripod are in place, unbounded awareness, focused attention and flexible consciousness, the path is open. You are the conscious master of your intentions. The energy of attraction is being activated as you wish. You have been activating this energy all your life but now you can turn it into a conscious lifestyle. There are certain things that hinder the manifestation of desire in anyones lifestyle. Severe obstacles are presented by anxiety, depression, slow self esteem, substance abuse and toxic relationships. Under the influence of these things, desire doesnt flow naturally. It gets tangled up in personal problems, doubts and complications. Less extreme, but also a hindrance, are any core beliefs that work against you. If you believe that life must be a struggle, that things are stacked against you, or that desires cannot automatically come true, its verydifficult to manifest what you want. Your skepticism will create an inner conflict. So its importantto address these obstacles. You dont need to be perfect. Remember that every desire has built into it the capability to manifest. Yet, cultivating a lifestyle that encourages manifestation really helps. Such a lifestyle is optimistic, low in stress, open to new possibilities, full of confidence in making desires come true, yet humble in the face of anything the universe sends you.

The single most important thing, I believe, is to live consciously rather than unconsciously. This makes all the difference since unconscious thinking brings accidents, undesirable outcomes and random events into our life. Self-awareness is our most precious birthright. We only have to choose to live by it.

As we prepare to meditate together, lets take a moment to consider our centering thought, I manifest desire easily and naturally. I manifest desire easily and naturally.

Now lets prepare for our meditation. Make yourself comfortable and close your eyes.

Become aware of your breath and just breathe slowly and deeply. With each breath allow yourself to become more deeply relaxed. Gently introduce the mantra, Samyama Hum. Samyama means the dynamic wholeness of awareness that is silent, focused and fluid simultaneously. This mantra activates these manifesting proprieties of your true self in meditation. As you repeat the mantra, feel the unlimited possibilities within your expansive awareness. Repeat it silently to yourself, Samyama Hum. With each repetition feel your body, mind and spirit open and receive just a little more. whenever you find yourself distracted by thoughts, noises or physical sensations, simply return your attention to silently repeating the mantra. Samyama Hum. Samyama Hum. Samyama Hum. Continue with your meditation for about 10 minutes. Samyama Hum. Samyama Hum. Samyama Hum. Just mentally. Samyama Hum. Samyama Hum. Samyama Hum. Release the mantra and continue to sit restfully, inhaling and exhaling slowly. When you feel ready, open your eyes.

As you continue with your day, contemplate the centering thought, I manifest desire easily and naturally. I manifest desire easily and naturally. I manifest desire easily and naturally.

Journal Questions:1. We have been approaching the technique of manifesting our desires as a special set of instructions to follow in meditation. But that is not our final aim. Over time, we become proficient in desiring from this flexible and focused state of unbounded awareness until this becomes our natural mode of thinking in daily life. This is the state of consciousness we are born to have the fully developed state of natural human awareness. Write down how this compares with the view of human potential you were taught growing up.

2. Looking at manifesting desires as a conscious lifestyle, we can see that there are some habits that are conducive to this lifestyle and some that arent. For example, the habit of meditating in the morning and enjoying a healthy breakfast sets the intention for a day of nourishment and ease. But the habit of rushing out the door in the morning and eating breakfast in the car, or not at all, sets the trajectory for a hectic, stressful day. Make a short list of habits that promote a life of easy manifestation of desires, and those that dont.

3. Using your list of habits that dont foster a lifestyle of manifesting easily, write the underlying belief that holds that behavior in place. For example, you might have the habit, When a friend tells me about their great new job, my first response is, Its not really as great as they say, and it probably wont last. The underlying belief may be, Life is a chaotic struggle, and you should expect disappointment. Now go back and ask if you really know whether those beliefs are true, andwhether they are really helping you. Consider letting go of the beliefs that are no longer serving you.


Day 13 Manifesting From Your True Self

Message of the Day:To create your life from your inner core means you are manifesting from the same source

and intelligence as the universe your desires are in tune with the creative and evolutionary forces of Nature. This alignment with the universe ensures that your wishes will manifest at the right time and under the right circumstances for everyone affected by them. You dont have to try to figure outmentally how to balance your individual needs with the needs of those around you.

In todays meditation we will start to feel our individual awareness synchronize with cosmic awareness. When you sync your life with the universe, everything is easier and more enjoyable.

Centering Thought:My desires manifest at the right time and place

Sanskrit Mantra:My awareness is aligned with the creative power of the universe

Deepak:Your true self manifests what is best for you. It taps into the intelligence of the universe.

This cosmic intelligence creates, governs and controls everything in a balanced, harmonious way. You always have a choice to align yourself with your true self or not. According to the choice you make, you tap into cosmic intelligence, or you dont. This isnt an either-or proposition, however. Cosmic intelligence is always supporting you. Yet, when you become more aware, this intelligence expands as your awareness expands. I know that this may sound abstract but cosmic intelligence resides in every cell of your body as the memory of evolution from interstellar dust to the formation of DNA and the beginning of life.Your cells automatically use this vast storehouse of knowledge for their own benefit.

But your situation isnt automatic when it comes to what you want from life. The worlds wisdom traditions have some advice to offer here. They teach that the path of pleasure isnt as beneficial as the path of evolution which brings wisdom. Desires evolve. What a child wants isnt the same as what an adult wants. Then there is what your true self wants which is to see you expand, thrive and grow every day. To have this in your life you must first desire it. Pleasure has its own attraction, of course, and no one is saying you should prefer unpleasantness. Its a matter of setting deeper priorities. Using the energy of attraction to bring you what is best and highest, youwill be aiming for the ultimate goal following the highest vision.

Your highest needs receive the strongest support. Therefore, the ancient sages and seers declare that we should focus first and foremost on our highest needs. These include love, truth, creative power, compassion for ourselves and others, tending with care to the natural worlds, and waking up to who we really are.

The true self is not available to our limited personal self or ego but once you consciously connect to cosmic intelligence, your desires will be fulfilled at exactly the right time and place. Your needs will be supported by the universe. This is one of the great secrets of the worlds wisdom traditions.

As we prepare to meditate together, lets take a moment to consider our centering thought. My desires manifest at the right time and place. My desires manifest at the right time and place.

Now lets prepare for our mediation. Make yourself comfortable and close your eyes. Become aware of your breath and just breathe, slowly and deeply. With each breath, allow yourself to become more deeply relaxed. Gently introduce the mantra, Sharavana Bhava. This mantra attunes your intentions with the intentions of the cosmos. As you repeat the mantra, feel your awareness synchronize with universal awareness. Repeat it silently to yourself, Sharavana Bhava. With each repetition feel your body, mind and spirit open and receive just a little more. Whenever you find yourself distracted by thoughts, noises or physical sensations, simply return your attention to silently repeating the mantra. Sharavana Bhava. Sharavana Bhava. Continue with your meditation for about 10 minutes. Sharavana Bhava. Sharavana Bhava. Sharavana Bhava. Just mentally. Sharavana Bhava. Sharavana Bhava. Sharavana Bhava. Release the mantra and continue to sit restfully, inhaling and exhaling slowly. When you feel ready, open your eyes.

As you continue with your day, contemplate the centering thought. My desires manifest at

the right time and place. My desires manifest at the right time and place. My desires manifest at theright time and place.

Journal Questions:1. The intelligence of the universe is there to guide and direct manifestation, if we allow it. Write about a time when you got out of your own way and things turned out better than you imagined.

2. Our ego mind tries to determine what is right, but it doesnt have the intellectual capacity to balance our individual needs with the entire universe. Write a list of areas you spend a lot of time and energy worrying about. Imagine how much better it would be to let your cosmic intelligence figure all that out.

3. Our ego mind also spends a lot of time trying to figure out the right time for desires to manifest.And when they happen too slowly or too quickly, it feels frustrated or upset. Write about one area oflife (e.g. relationships or finances), in which you are frustrated with the pace of change. Then write about how it would feel if you were at peace with the timing of change, knowing it was unfolding atthe pace which best serves your highest needs.


Day 14 Spiritual Manifestation

Message of the Day:Congratulations on completing another week of our Meditation Experience. This week we

have explored in detail the mechanics of manifestation and the art of desiring. Todays meditation will explore spiritual manifestation. This means that what we bring forth in our desires is spiritually nourishing to us, and those around us. Too often the tools of manifestation aim no further than getting a better car, house, or partner. But when you learn to desire from your true self, these same desires will also bring you closer to your spiritual aspirations of greater love, joy, inspiration, and spiritual freedom.

Our meditation today connects us to our pure spiritual self. As our consciousness wakes up to its true nature, our mind and emotions begin to reveal their latent spiritual qualities as well: love, compassion, inspiration, wisdom, and peace.

Centering Thought:Fulfilling my dreams fulfills my spirit

Sanskrit Mantra:I radiate spiritual and material abundance

Deepak:Congratulation son completely week 2 of our meditation experience. This marks an

important milestone. Everyone wants to attract better things into their lives but now youve gone deeply into the art of desire and you know what the mechanics of manifestation truly are. This knowledge can benefit you for the rest of your life.

The culmination of week 2 is to manifest your spiritual desires. These include the desire for

inner peace, direct experience of the soul, and connecting with God or however you perceive the divine. There is a false belief that the soul is separate from the body and that desire is therefore lowwhile spirit is high. This separation is man-made. As far as your true self is concerned, fulfilling your most cherished desires is totally spiritual. In fact, this is what the spiritual path is all about.

As you reflect on what you want to manifest in your life think of what you hope to feel whenyou achieve it. If you know youll feel loving, kind, contented, peaceful, nourished and safe, your desire has its roots in spirit because these are qualities of your true self. Silently awaiting to manifest.

As your consciousness awakens, the qualities of your true self awaken too. Waking up simply means becoming more self-aware. It is finding out who you really are. The process is natural rather than mystical, open to everyone, not just saints and sages. When you awaken by practicing meditation, you are on the path to fulfilling your spiritual longing for love, bliss and freedom. Learning to live from this level of pure awareness is known in Sanskrit as Siddhi. The word may be ancient but the goal is timeless. It exists for you, here and now. Encountering your soul happens without effort because your soul is just as eager to connect with you.

As we prepare to meditate together, lets take a moment to consider our centering thought. Fulfilling my dreams fulfills my spirit. Fulfilling my dreams fulfills my spirit.

Now lets prepare for our mediation. Make yourself comfortable and close your eyes. Become aware of your breath and just breathe slowly and deeply. With each breath allow yourself to become more deeply relaxed. Gently introduce the mantra. Shreem Namah. This mantra helps to manifest abundance that brings us closer to spiritual fulfillment. As you repeat the mantra, feel the integration of material and spiritual abundance in your consciousness. Repeat it silently to yourself, Shreem Hamah. With each repetition feel your body, mind and spirit open and receive justa little more. Whenever you find yourself distracted by thoughts, noises or physical sensations simply return your attention to repeating the mantra. Shreem Namah. Shreem Namah. Shreem Namah. Continue with your meditttion for about 10 minutes. Shreem Namah. Shreem Namah. Shreem Namah. Just mentally. Shreem Namah. Shreem Namah. Shreem Namah. Release the mantra and continue to sit restfully, inhaling and exhaling slowly. When you feel ready, open your eyes.

As you continue with your day, contemplate the centering thought. Fulfilling my dreams fulfills my spirit. Fulfilling my dreams fulfills my spirit. Fulfilling my dreams fulfills my spirit.

Journal Questions:1. For many people, fulfilling desires initially means manifesting the material things we want, andspiritual considerations are secondary. But as we get more of our physical needs met, the spiritual aspect of manifestation becomes more important. Write a little in your journal about the growth of your spiritual values.

2. When we desire from our true self, the entire process of manifestation is spiritual. It begins in pure spirituality and culminates in universal spirit. We dont have to worry about trying to make ourdesires good or altruistic that is automatically factored in when we find our source of being incosmic intelligence. There is no clear separation of spiritual and non-spiritual, because all life is lived in the light of spirit. Write a few lines in your journal about how this might change your concept of what spirituality means for you.

3. Did you have any breakthrough ideas or aha experiences this week that shifted your views onmanifesting desires? Write them down in your journal and include any personal insights that came to you.


Day 15 Sharing Your Happiness

Message of the Day:Welcome to week three of our Meditation Experience. We are ready to learn how to expand

our individual desires for happiness so that they include those around us. We all want the best for everyone around us, and we want everyone to be happy. But it is impractical to try to make others happy by fulfilling their desires one-by-one. However, if we can connect to the fundamental existence of others through experience of our own existence or pure consciousness, then our individual fulfillment and happiness is shared with them at that deep connected level of existence.

In todays meditation, we will open ourselves up to this core experience of Being, where our inner fulfillment and happiness can be shared with others within the unbounded field of universal consciousness.

Centering Thought:The happiness of others is my own happiness

Sanskrit Mantra:My happiness expands to all

Deepak:Weve arrived at week 3 where you learn how to expand your desires to include others. In

daily life we all know how hard it is to please some people, how resistant others are to change and how often our desires clash with someone elses, even someone we love. To expand your desires to include others is an art but it begins quite simply. We want the best for our children, extended family and friends. Here is where the lesson of desire can really be tested. If you have mastered theart of intention, you can immensely benefit others. If you havent, your desires for them often remain at the level of wishful thinking. The secret lives in consciousness. The happiness of others becomes your happiness when you go beyond ego. There is a merging of me and others at the levelof the true self. The ego isolates. The true self unites. When the fulfillment of someone else feels as good as your own fulfillment, youre reaping the reward of expanded awareness.

In real life, as we all know, egos clash. There is a gap between the true self and the personalities people use so much energy to defend. This discrepancy leads to frustration and disappointment if our desires arent manifesting in the the way the ego craves. You can succeed at the level of ego even though, of course, there are people we feel happy with or who are happy around us. Such happiness can easily be taken away, however. You must release your dependence on the egos limited perspective.

See yourself as you really are. You re someone who can manifest any possibility from your true self. When you take the entire situation inside, surrendering it to the true self, the gap between you and someone else isnt there anymore. The energy of attraction makes no resistance. All the complaints, demands and criticisms that create problems at the ego level are erased. In a word, you have left the level of the problem and found the level of the solution. This is accomplished effortlessly through the expansion of your awareness.

As we prepare to meditate together, lets take a moment to consider our centering thought. The happiness of others is my own happiness. The happiness of others is my own happiness.

Lets prepare for our meditation. Make yourself comfortable and close your eyes. Become aware of your breath and breathe slowly and deeply. With each breath allow yourself to become more deeply relaxed. Gently introduce the mantra, Brahm Ananda. This mantra expands the

happiness of bliss of your true self to others. As you repeat the mantra, feel the joy of your being grow and embrace all around you. Repeat it silently to yourself. Brahm Ananda. With each repetition feel your body, mind and spirit open and receive just a little more. whenever you find yourself distracted by thoughts, noises or physical sensations simply return your attention to silentlyrepeating the mantra. Brahm Ananda. Brahm Ananda. Brahm Ananda. Continue with your meditation for about 10 minutes. Brahm Ananda. Brahm Ananda. Brahm Ananda. Just mentally. Brahm Ananda. Brahm Ananda. Brahm Ananda. Brahm Ananda. Release the mantra and continue to sit restfully, inhaling and exhaling slowly. When you feel ready, open your eyes.

As you continue with your day, contemplate the centering thought. The happiness of others is my own happiness. The happiness of others is my own happiness. The happiness of others is myown happiness.

Journal Questions:1. We share our happiness with others by expanding our desire for happiness to include them. By transcending the ego, we learn to desire from that place where there is no separation between me and you. Describe a situation in your past with someone you love, in which your desire for happiness was so big that it was also a selfless desire for their happiness.

2. Thinking of that same situation, recall the state of mind and heart you were experiencing at that time. Write down your memories, emotions, and physical sensations. Know that this expanded desire for happiness that includes others is always available to you in the silence of your soul.

3. When those around you are happy, it increases and expands your desire for happiness even more. Write of a time when you made a child or a close friend happy. How did you feel in return?


Day 16 Trusting Natures Course

Message of the Day:Today we will learn how to trust in the infinite intelligence of Nature to manifest our

desires in the way that serves our highest needs. We will learn to let go of our need to control and the us-versus-them philosophy in fulfilling our desires. The easiest way to overcome these mentalboundaries is to expand our awareness by experiencing the quieter, more universal levels of our mind. This is where our desires and the desires of others find common ground.

In todays meditation, we will put our desires under the guidance of our cosmic self, the place where the universe and all individual selves meet. We can trust in this level of life to handle all the details of manifesting our desires because we are really trusting our deepest self. It is the same intelligence that governs and orchestrates all the diversity in creation.

Centering Thought:Everyones spiritual path is perfect

Sanskrit Mantra:As my consciousness grows, obstacles disappear

Deepak:Everything that applies to making your own desires come true applies when you desire for

someone else. The matrix for manifestation remains the same. The only difference is that your

awareness must expand in order to embrace someone else. Those whom we love, cherish, appreciate and feel compassion for are being included in expanded awareness.

The people we exclude are being seen through constricted awareness. There is no open line, or very limited communication with them. Constricted awareness, being tied to the ego, applies to responses that fit only our personal values rather than honoring what the other person values. You need to respect the path and experiences each person chooses to follow. In a nutshell, to expand your desires to someone else, you must be free of us versus them them thinking. Only then willlines of communication be open between you and the other person. Everyone has a true self at the core of their consciousness. This is the ultimate reality no matter how good or bad you think the situation is on the surface. You can trust that natures way of manifesting desires always works but it might not work as fast as you like, or according to your expectations. Just as we need to be patient and nonjudgemental with a manifestation of our own desires, the same holds true when we want the highest and best for someone else. Just keep in mind that the energy of attraction is most powerful when what you desire is highest and best, either for yourself or for others. Our role is to understand and support the path our children, partner, expanded family and friends have chosen andnot to impose our path on them.

As we prepare to meditate together, lets take a moment to consider our centering thought. Everyones spiritual path is perfect. Everyones spiritual path is perfect.

Lets prepare for our meditation. Make yourself comfortable and close your eyes. Become aware of your breath and breathe slowly and deeply. With each breath allow yourself to become more deeply relaxed. Gently introduce the mantra Gum Namah. This mantra removes obstacles and hindrances in evolution by creating a larger and stronger wholeness that includes everyones needs. As you repeat the mantra, feel your wholeness expand, overcoming all difficulties and obstacles. Repeat it silently to yourself, Gum Namah. With each repetition feel your body, mind and spirit open and receive just a little more. whenever you find yourself distracted by thoughts, noises or physical sensations, simply return your attention to silently repeating the mantra, Gum Namah. Gum Namah. Gum Namah. Continue with your meditation for about 10 minutes. Gum Namah. Gum Namah. Gum Namah. Gum Namah. just mentally. Gum Namah. Gum Namah. Gum Namah. Release the mantra and continue to sit restfully, inhaling and exhaling slowly. Whenyou feel ready, open your eyes.

As you continue with your day contemplate the centering thought. Everyones spiritual path is perfect. Everyones spiritual path is perfect. Everyones spiritual path is perfect.

Journal Questions:1. Trusting the course of Nature means accepting that everything is unfolding in the way, and in the time, that is best for all involved. This can be hard to accept in your own life, but even harder to accept in the lives of others. We often believe we know what is best for them. Today in your journal,write down what you believe a good friend should do to fix an issue in their life perhaps a relationship problem or career dilemma. Now write to yourself that you dont really know what is best for your friend, or what the right spiritual growth is for him or her. But you can trust that your friends higher self does know and is guiding him or her, and that is Natures course.

2. When you let go of ego control and judgment, not only do your mind and heart open up, but your body and breathing also become calm and relaxed. As you release your ego judgments about your friends life situation, notice how your emotions and thought patterns change. Pay attention to how your muscles relax and your breath opens up. Write down any other changes you observe.

3. Envision a mind/body state where you trust that everyone is perfect just as they are and evolving exactly as they need. How would this change your relationships with them? With yourself?


Day 17 Playful Manifestation

Message of the Day:Playfulness, lightheartedness, and joy this is the spirit from which all creativity

flourishes. If we want to truly share the abundance of our manifested desires with others, then we need to create from that place of playfulness within our hearts. When you desire in a carefree state of awareness, there are no ego demands or feelings of desperation about your desires.

Todays meditation is an invitation to join Natures play, or Lila, as it is termed in Sanskrit. We will learn to trust the desires and intentions that arise from the freedom and joy of our true self.

Centering ThoughtDesire is my creative play

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