IMAGINE (John Lennon style...)

I was thinking today about the concept of "want"... watching Isner and Mahut at Wimbledon, for the 3rd day (longest tennis match in history), both equally and energetically wanting to win this match... It's interesting to see the energy of one of the opponents inevitably leak out. One opponent has the freedom, unwavering and unabashed desire for the win, while the other inevitably feels not worthy, beaten, and can not clearly and really IMAGINE the win. Imagine having it, knowing it, and feeling it.

The key to this is like I said in an earlier post about wanting, there has to be a freedom in it. When you go into a Mexican restaurant, you EASILY order the fajitas and a Corona, and go back to your conversation munching tortillas chips and guacamole. Eventually, your order comes to your table, no problem. You never not once worried that potentially it wouldn't come, or rather maybe you would get spaghetti marinara instead. It's effortless...

Ah EFFORTLESS... now I start thinking of the things that are effortless... that we just plainly and EFFORTLESSLY expect, like the fajitas the beer. I'm sure there is a list of things you KNOW you are good at, things that are effortless in your life. When I was a child, I remember not trying just being really good at riding horses. I just LOVED it and my JOY assisted in making me great at it. I have a few girlfriends that are thin thin thin... and can eat anything. Key here is they believe that, and so it is. I believe I can just look at food and get heavy... AND SO IT IS. As Abraham Hicks says... You Ask and so you shall receive. The energy in the universe will concede to assist you in anything you imagine. Trouble here is that the effortless things we imagine are often times things we WORRY about. And because we imagined them so clearly/worried about them/pictured them/observed our current state... we received them... Debt, car accidents, failed love affairs... etc.

What if we took a more proactive approach to life, instead of thinking that life happens to us, let's have creative license and do a bit of design work. Deciding at the beginning of the day how things will go. Like the other day with the coffee/necklace story I told, somewhere in my brain I decided, it was going to be a rough day... and SO IT WAS. Ugh. I received comment on that post that painted the picture of my perfect day... and THAT is how we SHOULD wake up... like it's on purpose. Ready for the world to fall at our feet, with genuine confidence.

Now... It's one thing to imagine things and people and places you want in your life... and it's a whole other thing to embody that feeling of having it. You must feel it as well... just as much as you feel the things you worry about. They have equal strength. Something people don't consider when examining this concept... you might not believe in the kinetic energy of things... but think of the last thing you worried about, and how it manifested over and over in your life. Scary to think about - means you have to own the responsibility of creating those things in your life, just as much as you own the recognition for the good stuff... woops...

So now that we have worked out properly IMAGINING our greatest desires... one footnote...beware... a DESPERATE wanting will keep things from you. Because in the DESPERATION, there is a belief you don't REALLY deserve it... it won't ever reallllly come to you.

So... feel it, freely, effortlessly, and knowingly. And STOP WORRYING, 'cause you'll get that stuff too... plus STRESS is sooo bad for your body, spare yourself. Please...

Cheers! Here's to DESIGNING your every desire, every day!

Light it up!
IMAGINE!

IMAGINE by John Lennon