See, Say, Do

Someone asked me the other day if I could summarize manifestation coaching and the manifestation process without using a ton of jargon. I really had to think about it. But then, it came to me. "See, say, do."

I've always said that at its simplest, manifestation is a three-step process. But I've always struggled with how to capture the essence of those three steps as simply as possible. Interestingly, I couldn't do it until someone else posed the challenge. But there it is. See, say, do.

See – you see the world around you with clarity. You see paths and choices. You see your desires with clarity. Fuzzy thinking gets fuzzy results.

Say – You commit to the path. Choose. Envisioning choices leads to choosing. Say it. Give it life in the world around you. Express the desire. Articulate your power. Clothe and feed the dream until it takes on a life of its own.

Do – and to complete the cycle, you have to do what is necessary. Live in the direction of the dream, consciously creating the path as you walk.

See – Say – Do

Three simple steps.

More Shining Light

Last post I talked about how it’s hard to keep your light dimmed, since it naturally wants to shine. Then the very next day I heard a radio article about Django Reinhardt and it caught my attention.

If you don’t know, Reinhardt was a gypsy (really!) jazz guitarist who created a new sound, and generally blew away his contemporaries and continues to inspire generations of jazz guitarists today.

What I learned from the radio was that when 18 years old, Reinhardt was caught in a house fire that severely burned over half his body. A leg was badly burned (doctors wanted to amputate) and two fingers of his left hand were paralyzed. He refused the amputation and was walking with a cane within a year.

He also ignored those who said he would never play guitar again. With the new guitar his brother bought him, Reinhardt relearned to play guitar with his damaged hand, in the process creating a new, unique, and tremendously popular jazz style.

See, the talent was in there, struggling to get out. What if he had listened to everyone and stopped playing? He would have stopped the talent – not the fire. When he decided that not playing was unacceptable he became a musician again.

Life throws what sometimes seem like insurmountable obstacles in our way, and the tendency is to give up. But this is a lesson that nothing is insurmountable. Certainly the journey may not go the way you originally expected. Django didn’t expect to get caught in a fire. He didn’t expect to create a whole new way of playing a guitar either. All he knew at the time was that not playing was unacceptable.

Once he decided not to give up, his light found a way.

Sometimes all you need to do is get out of the way of your light.

You Can’t Hide Your Light

After a recent visit with my sister and my niece, her daughter, I started reflecting on the nature of personality and its manifestations. My nieces are out of their teens now, and growing into beautiful women, taking after their mother. But it's their maturing that got me thinking.

They are smart, assertive, forceful young women. Their mother is too, though she's only now learning it. In fact, as I look at my family, we all live in vastly differing life circumstances, and have had divergent paths growing up from a dysfunctional alcoholic start.

Yet in each case, now confirmed by the next generation, there's a streak of stubborn independence and force of will, sharp thinking, and incisive wit. We'd be a difficult lot to deal with if we weren't also so lovable!

My point is that no matter what life throws at you, or you bring on yourself, there's no point to worrying about "losing yourself." You can't. And if you're convinced that you need to engage in the so-called search for yourself, forget it. You're not lost. You'd be like Peter Pan looking for his shadow. It's right behind you.

In fact, I'm thinking that your "self" will make itself known no matter what you do. You express yourself with every move, every breath, and every thought. So maybe thinking time is better spent on "what you can you for the world" rather than "expressing yourself." The important question is what do you have to express? In life as in the internet, content rules. No matter how crude the delivery, good content wins every time.

So, whether you're sweating before speaking to a crowd, jittery as you wait for a job interview, or nervous before stepping on stage, focus on the content … the message … and your joy in delivering it. Everything else will take care of itself. You can count on it. In fact, you can't stop it.