Universal Truths

Filler

I've titled this post Filler because in a sense that is what it is.  In another sense however it affods me the space to share with you that there are times I am writing/typing a post for hours and because my desire to share so many concepts, experiences and results about manifesting an ideal life are abundant, sometimes topics merge into each other and the post I am working on becomes neither about one or the other :D.  As a result, I either temporarily or permanently set it aside to start on another topic that has burst to the forefront.

At times, like this, a topic can consume my thoughts and feelings to such a degree I can't recall the precise message I was hoping to share through the current post.

The other thing that occurs through writing, which I highly recommend, be it for publication or not, is that insights and epiphanies occur as I read and reread my work causing me to see a concept in an entirely new light.

The topic that is consuming me on this occasion is about Blueprints and in particular how our personal Blueprints about health, work, relationship, spirituality, and money, carried out consciously or unconsciously, determine our conditions and Cultures as individuals, in family, at our work place, and as nations…

Thanks for visiting and stay tuned…

until I post again...
Live the Life you Love
J x

On the other side of comfortable...

I don't follow the news, I haven't for about seven years. I find there is always someone ready to share the unpleasant news of the world without immersing myself in additional sources of external negativity.  I believe developing strength of mind and emotions, eliminating all forms of fear, and designing and experiencing my "ideal" life is good for me and the good for others.

On the weekend however it was brought to my attention that apparently things are pretty “terrible” here in Australia in terms of job cuts of late. I was told folks are really hurting and there was a speculation of how much worse things are likely to get over the next 12 to 18 months. I also heard that members of our community collecting the dole (government benefits) are required to start passing drug tests to collect their money - a move that was predicted to result in an increase in violence, theft, and other heinous activities.

On the other side of this same story I saw opportunity; opportunity for growth and progression. All conditions hold this duality - greater lack, limitation and contraction as well as improvement, betterment and expansion.

Even in the poorest of conditions people can become comfortable.  If lack is all that someone knows through their conditioning they may not know any different. Those that do recognise that there is another way to live and experience life may have also been taught that those better off are greedy, not nice people, or any number of attached limiting beliefs.

When I was doing it tough financially, emotionally, and/or spiritually, I was unaware of the alternative options available to me.   I lived in the comfort zone of doing without and discrediting those that had more - despite ever increasing feelings of frustration.

From my experience and observations we each have a comfort zone; a zone that, based on our conditioning, learnt behaviours and beliefs determines our behaviours and reactions to events and conditions.  Unless and until this zone is pushed upon in a way that may result in even greater lack and contraction, it is highly unlikely we will look for and consider, let alone adopt, a whatever it takes attitude to change our circumstances. Naturally these limits are different for everyone and this is why we have a planet of extremes and great contrast.

On hind side, I can see why it took me the time it did to apply deeply the wisdoms Anthony and I discovered through our study and coaching - namely because I was still in my financial, health and relationship comfort zones. It wasn't until these boundaries were all pushed to new limits, consisting of a magnitude of lack and limitation that caused me to metaphorically and occasionally literally scream "enough is enough", "no more of this...", "I'm done", that I would reach the cross road that in one direction read, "this way to check-out of life" and in the other, "this way to Live the Life you Love." I'm a girl with gusto! :)

Whenever I'm not achieving desired outcomes today, and experiencing contraction, I immerse myself yet deeper into the laws that govern us by monitoring even closer my Thoughts, Feelings, Words and Actions.

I find it beneficial to consider occasionally that if I had been born into another family, here, or anywhere in the world, I too could have experienced even greater lack, limitation and contraction then I did.  When I think of any person whose conditions I abhor I know that I too have the capacity to think, feel, speak and act as they do.

We are all expressing a concept of our self and it wasn't until I changed who I believed myself to be that my world began to confirm the change.

From Neville Goddard I heard that "I may conceive myself to be a rich man, a poor man, a beggar man or a thief, but the center of my being remains the same regardless of the concept I hold of myself.  At the center of manifestation there is only one I AM manifesting in legions of forms or concepts of itself and “I am that I am”."  I felt this to be true.

By my desire to experience a more abundant and prosperous life and to be a greater expression of that Life, initially at least, my conditions appeared to worsen. Things have a tendency to look and feel like they are falling apart before they come together.

I now know that this happens because I knowingly or unknowingly call into my space all that is unlike what I decide. In doing so I give myself an opportunity to be that which I decided and desired.

In the absence of that which is not,
that which is, is not.
~ Neale Donald Walsch

When committed to living an ideal life, contraction is always followed by expansion: and the degree of contraction is determined by our knowledge and application of the laws that govern us.

As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. ~ Proverbs 23:7

So, what lives on the other side of comfortable…? Opportunity! Stupendous opportunity!

until I post again...
Live the Life you Love
J. x

Specificity

 "Keys to a Better Life"

A Universal Truth regarding the Law of Attraction is to BE SPECIFIC.

Attracting that which we desire in life is much like focusing a camera.  If we are uncertain of the details of what we wish to capture on film and we shift the camera around from scene to scene, it matters not how many times we take a shot.  Chances are every outcome will be blurry.

On the other hand, if we take time out to contemplate the perfect shot, clearly defining the details of the desired end result, and hold our attention on the vision to be created along with the feelings this perfect shot will generate, we are certain to DEVELOP AN OUTSTANDING IMAGE.

Love the Life you Live
J. x

Summary of the Four UT Keys

 Awareness is the Key, the rest is 1, 2, 3.

In our journey, Anthony and I discovered that we are happiest when we remember we have options and that in this plethora of options, 'ideal' is available.

Frustration, pain, worry, depression, anxiety, incongruence, dis-ease, suffering and all other displeasing emotions and conditions come about when we tell our Self that these current conditions (temporarily being reflected at us) are permanent.

As a result, we develop states of consciousness based on current values, beliefs and behaviours that we keep in place by the stories we tell ourselves, over and over again, about who we are in relation to the various subjects like our relationships, our health, our prosperity and so on.

In the same moment we notice these areas of our life and desire something different, we have raised our awareness and sent out a new rocket of desire.

If we are willing to observe our Self from a place of uncritical observation, we can replace all self criticism and loathing of ‘what is’ with a new story.

Becoming this Great Observer, we begin recognising who we are really Being.  We notice how we currently speak and treat our Self.  We also begin noticing how others are being and responding (or more likely re-acting), speaking, and treating themselves, and us, in return.

No one treats us worse than we are willing to treat our Self.

This uncritical observation of our Self and others in areas such as our speech, the company we keep, our family relationships, the style of clothes we dress ourselves in, the homes we choose to live in, the cars we drive, the way we choose to draw an income and the amount of prosperity (health, wealth and happiness etc.) we have access to, are all a momentary reflection of our current concept of our Self.

“When you re-value yourself, the world confirms the change.” – Neville

By refining our imagination of ‘what’ we would now rather hear, see, feel, say and do, we naturally develop new states of consciousness and develop new values, beliefs and behaviours. We again keep these in place by the new stories we tell ourselves, over and over again, about who we are.

By using our Imagination to think from the feeling of the wish fulfilled we can move immediately into the feeling of Gratitude.  And, to the extent we can be grateful NOW for what we desire determines our personal speed of co-creation.

It is the way to Alchemy

Until next time...
Live the Life you Love
J. x

Begin with the end in mind (Part 1 of 5)

The next five posts are concurrent.

With an emphasis on goal achievement, when thoroughly understood, ‘beginning with the end in mind’ is without doubt one of the most powerful concepts we’ve implemented towards living our version of a ‘better life’.

When considering how I could apply this concept to the information I’m sharing through these posts, I would begin with the end in mind by outlining the simple four step approach I refer to in the first two post (“Greetings” and “Wanting more”).

For simplicity, I’m codifying this approach by calling it ‘The Four UT (Universal Truths) Keys’ and reiterate my message in the post prior to this one - there is nothing new under the sun. 

We refer to this four step process as our Keys to a Better Life. It is an approach Anthony and I have adopted from a variety of teachings and codified for our ease of use and re-presentation.  We apply it to all areas of our life in which we seek improvement.

The Four UT Keys are:

 Awareness + 1, 2, 3.

Awareness is the Key & all the rest is 1, 2, 3.

Until I post again…
Live the Life you Love
J x

There’s nothing new under the sun

The title of this post aptly describes the majority of information I’ll be sharing.

We haven’t come across a concept (on personal or professional transformation) that doesn’t show-up as a complementary take on the same core message someone else is presenting and that others have presented for decades, centuries and even millennium before.

What I’m doing via this site therefore is re-presenting information from an area commonly referred to as ‘New Thought’ and that inevitably shows-up as Ancient Wisdom.

If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
~ Sir Isaac Newton

Based on our study of these many Giants (see Influences), Anthony and I present tried and tested information from our personal findings and experience, as well as from this plethora of authors, writers and presenters with the same core message:
 

OUR THOUGHTS / IMAGINATION CREATES OUR REALITY!

Until I post again…
Live the Life you Love
J x

Greetings

Greetings Friends

 Come, let us all be friends for once
Let us make life easy on us,
Let us be lovers and loved ones,
The earth shall be left to no one.

~ Yunus Emre (ca. 1238 - 1320)

When my beautiful friend and life partner Anthony and I met for a drink, our first date on the 15th of November 2005, we had no idea the extent to which our lives would change.  Nor did we fathom the pilgrimage of mind we would embark on, the enormity of which is far more apparent to us now and ever expanding.

My name is Joanne Mangion and I would like to welcome you to my world and version of Universal Truths - the why, what and how to Live a Life of our greatest desires, as I’ve come to understand and experience my own version, so far.

So much is now happening in our lives that we are compelled to record and share it, in a variety of ways, in the hope that others too will embark upon and/or remain committed to the inevitability of experiencing a life of their greatest desires.

We are all living our dream life; "a life of our imagination".
Are you dreaming up a Nirvana or a Nightmare?

The aim of this Blog, and the posts it contains, is to write a continually evolving book of sorts that keeps up with who I am and who I’m next becoming.  Further, I enjoy the potential of creating a book that allows interaction between the author(s) and the readers.

I wish to do this by chatting with kindred spirits who are also on the abundance, law of attraction and/or imagination creates reality type journeys.  It is my desire that by chatting with each other, we may inspire, uplift, and keep each other loving accountable to living a life that fulfils our greatest desires for a better world.

Anthony and I consider ourselves demonstrators of a better life after repeatedly experiencing the feeling that “it’s gotta be better than this?!”

Since late 2005, we have spent seven days a week, 24 hours a day committed to becoming this demonstration.  We have been requesting, identifying, implementing, testing and achieving results from concepts that promise personal and professional transformation towards a better life.  We now feel we have acquired the pieces to the puzzle to achieve this at least at an intellectual level anyway. Our journey now is to continually live what we know from a heart space for we have learnt that this is not predominantly a material world, it is a psychological and spiritual one and feelings are the language of the soul.

By ‘better life’, I mean a life of our greatest desires in every area (health, wealth, relationships, life purpose, peace on earth, and so on) – whatever these means to you.

By the application of a simple four step approach we’ve adopted and somewhat codified, we have begun experiencing an ongoing emergence of wonderful things in our lives.

And, there is so much more for us to Be, Do and Have…

We acknowledge and graciously accept that being ‘demonstrators of a better life’ is our living.  We also acknowledge and graciously accept that we are works in progress on this eternally evolving journey.

It was through ‘A Course in Miracles’ teaching that I first comprehended (or came into alignment with) the knowing that my purpose in life is to experience ‘Immense Happiness’.  Through Neville Goddard’s teachings, from the mid 1940’s, I discovered that ‘Love’s secret is expansion’, and it was Abraham-Hicks who confirmed for me that my purpose in life is ‘Joyous Expansion’.

Personally and collectively, Anthony and I have amassed 30 plus years studying concepts and teachings of this nature and bring our findings and personal experiences to this site discussing subjects like imagination, energy, feelings, abundance, metaphysics, quantum physics, the law of attraction, education and learning, hypnotherapy, NLP, values, planning and time management, coaching and self-coaching, personal presentation, religion, relationship, culture, politics, leadership, our environment, love and much more…

Anthony says, ‘Love the Life you Live’, I say, ‘Live the Life you Love’

Until my next post…
Live the Life you Love :)
Joanne x