LIVING WITH JOY - Chapter 17
XVII. Taking a Quantum Leap
New ideas and new forward movements do not always come in the form the mind expects. In picturing the highest for yourself it is important that you use your mind to go upward and outward; let your mind come up with the initial images of what you want. As the mind creates pictures, those images go to the light of the soul, to the inner being which creates those pictures. The soul then gives the mind new ideas and visions. It may seem at times that you think of what you want, and by the time you get it, it is different from what you originally asked for. This is because the mind, when requesting something, automatically activates the resources of the greater self. When the request comes back, it comes back in its higher form.
You may have wondered why some of the things you asked for took a long time to come. Quantum leaps involve time and your ability to manifest things. If you went back and looked at what you asked for in the past, you would see that many of the things you did not get, you no longer want, and the things that were for your higher good, you have. Some things you may be preparing to have will come at a later time.
Another level that you operate from, besides the mind, is the spirit. The spirit tells you how to get things not through the mind, but through coincidences, feelings and emotions. After you use your mind to tell the Universe what you want, begin to listen to your spontaneous and creative urges. They may seem to have no relationship to the goal you want to reach. It may seem as if, for instance, you put out for great financial success, and all of a sudden you want to take the summer off and study something else. As you trust your inner urges and study something else, you may find new ideas emerging that bring you the wealth you wanted. The soul is always telling you the right way to go, but you will need to take the leap of faith and trust, and act upon that inner guidance.
If you are going for
a major change in your life ,
you will want to change
those beliefs that kept you
from having it in the past.
If you are very clear on your intent to get from one place to another, for instance from one level of financial prosperity to another, or one level of creative success to another, then there will be changes that you must undergo in yourself. Because, if you were already there on the various levels of personality and emotions and mind, you would not need to do anything. You would already have what you want. A woman came to me and said, "I want to be a millionaire. Today I cannot pay my rent, but I want to be a millionaire, and I would like to have it as quickly as possible." If she believed she could have it, she would already have it at that point.
When you put a request for a quantum leap out to the universe, the request goes upward from your mind to your spirit. The spirit then begins broadcasting signals back to your mind and emotional selves, telling them how to create the changes you want. Now, you must pay attention to those signals. There are many levels at which changes will need to happen for you to achieve this new step. For instance, in our example of greater financial prosperity, that person might need to learn many of the principles of creating money. Therefore, her soul may direct her to read many books or send someone along who can teach and instruct her. It may be that she is not willing to let go of her old images of lack of money. It may be that her heart is not yet open enough to believe that she can receive and deserve that kind of money. So there will be many lessons sent to her to help open her heart. In fact, her level of trust may be so undeveloped that the making of the money may be delayed while she develops faith and trust.
Whatever you ask for, you may have to let go of something to get it. If you have asked for money, you may have to let go of your images of the lack of it, of all of the ways you live that reflect those images, and of the ways you spend and buy. Your soul will give you many challenges and growth opportunities to help you let go of those images of lack. The money may come at first in small amounts so that you can demonstrate your willingness to spend on those things that create prosperity. Eventually as the energy is changed within you, as your programs and decisions and beliefs are rewritten, ideas will begin flowing, concrete ideas about specifically how to create the sum of money you want. It may be a year or two or even more before the programs around lack of abundance are cleared up enough for the specific idea to come in. At that point, you will continue to create many ways to attract wealth and refine them until it is a fact.
Some people stop along the way when something does not come immediately, because their minds cannot see the connection between the lessons that are occurring and their request for a major change. Their minds may even interpret that some of the events are taking them in the wrong direction, and that although they are asking for something over and over, the opposite is occurring. However, if you look at how much you are growing from having the opposite of what you want (or what appears to be), .you will see that in fact these events are working on your energy and opening you in certain ways to have what you are asking for.
For instance, one woman asked for an increase of 100 percent in her monthly salary. Shortly thereafter, her boss had to cut her salary in half due to business problems. It looked to her like she was getting the opposite of what she asked for. However, she began to think about starting her own business in a related field, something she had wanted to do for years. The cut in pay became a motivation to move forward and start her own business. She did indeed make the salary she asked for, several years later, in her own business.
As you can see, change is much more involved than simply asking for something and having it. You may need to go inward, expand your faith and trust, and open your heart. You need to trust in your inner guidance and impulses to move from your present level of abundance to a greater one. You also need to let go of many old images about who you are. You will have many growth opportunities offered to you to change those mental images. At the soul level, it is always a joy to grow, and the soul is always concerned that you are growing. Whether you are growing through pain or joy, it is the growth that is the end goal, the growth that is required to have what you have decided you want. The soul lets your mind operate with a great deal of free will in choosing for yourself which goals you will bring about, or what quantum leaps you want.
The higher you can aim with your mind, the more you can join with the growth of your soul. As your mind thinks of new ideas, it goes upward and links with your spirit, which is outside the denser energies of the earth plane. The spirit speaks back to you through your emotions, most frequently through your feelings, by giving you a feeling or an urge of something it wants you to do. When these feelings and urges come through, at that point you sometimes will want to ignore your mind (not make it wrong), for the mind will often look for reasons and explanations before taking action. If you have a strong urge to do something, it is important to follow that urge. Your mind may try to make up reasons why you should or should not follow the urge, for your mind follows the familiar programs it knows. Your urges come from your soul, which has a much broader picture than your mind can conceive of to get you what you want. It leads you in directions your mind cannot anticipate.
So you will want to make a decision, as you take a quantum leap, to follow your inner guidance, the inner urges of your feeling level, of your soul. There are two levels of reality. In one your mind puts out a goal, is very clear in its intent, makes the decision to have it, and commits your will. The second level is the soul level; from it the higher self goes out in all directions and magnetizes you to the coincidences, people and events that create what you want. This happens beyond the level of the mind; you must follow your inner urgings and guidance to join this flow.
You can choose
how quickly
you wish it to happen.
To make the time between asking for what you want and receiving it shorter, begin by getting clear on your goals. Some of you are so nonspecific that your minds wander around, never making clear requests to your souls and so your souls spend much time guiding your minds to get clear about what you want. The more accurately and precisely you can state what you want in any area of your life—with exact guidelines and steps— the more rapidly you will have it. You may not get it in the precise form you asked for, but your soul will create for you the essence of what you want.
In being precise, you are formulating essence. Essence is the growth that you are going for in any quantum leap, and I would suggest that you take anything you have requested and ask, "What is the essence of it?" If you look at what you have tried to create, you will see that you have always gotten the essence of everything you asked for. For instance, if you wished for a loving relationship, you may have wanted simply to feel loved. Your soul may give you love in many ways, perhaps through a close friend, child or pet, perhaps through a job promotion, or in any of the ways you accept love. If you want to create a more fit body, the essence you want may be more self-love. If you are willing to go for essence in your quantum leaps, you will be able to create them far more rapidly.
If you are tempted to go back into the past and say, "Well, I wanted this, but I did not get it," look at the core, at the essence, of what you requested. I would say you have gotten it in many ways. The soul is quite creative in interpreting your request. The soul has to be creative, for the mind is fairly narrow in its ability to ask. The soul takes any request for growth and expands it in every direction it can.
There are some agreements between the mind and the soul. One is the agreement that the mind will look for the specific areas for growth to occur in. Meanwhile, the soul expands the pictures and the choices that the mind has. The mind can act upon the soul's opportunities or not. So there is a constant interplay between the soul and the mind, much as there is a dance between mind and body. The mind creates the image of what it wants, and sends the data to the body. The body can accept and act upon the guidance the mind is giving, or it can choose not to.
Emotional changes
are often required
for a quantum leap.
When your emotions are heavy and sad or negative, the aura around your body is dense. It is like driving with a dirty windshield. You cannot see clearly or far. The light of your soul does not come through brightly. Your soul will guide you to look at those areas in your life that are creating emotional disturbance and stop reacting to them. Find ways to calm your emotions, for calm emotions speed up the time it takes to reach your goals. When you are calm, and peaceful, your soul comes through your emotions to give you that inner guidance. The soul gives guidance through the emotional body, in urges, insights, and those sudden feelings that take you into new arenas.
Taking a quantum leap does not mean searching for relief from worry or disappointment, but creating delight and joy. Look back at those times in which you did something great and you will see the motivation of desire that led you to create it. Often you say, "I should do this, or create this or that, to make me happy." If doing those things only brings you a sense of relief, you will probably continue to make it a should and not an accomplished fact. You must find desire-motivation for those things you want to do. You need great motivation and a real inner drive to make a quantum leap. It will not work if it is only something your mind has created as a nice thing to do, or something that might feel good. It needs to be something that you can get behind at all levels, that your emotions can feel excited about, something that you truly want to do.
Disliking poverty, for instance, is not enough to get you out of it. You need to truly desire and love to make money if you want to have it. You cannot get what you want by hating your lack of it. So ask, when you look at the quantum leap you want to make, what is your motivation? If you see that there isn't any motivation other than to relieve you of feeling bad about who you are, ask "What can I create as a motivation?" Those things you create and go towards are things you feel highly charged about, that bring you great joy and delight. You can always find the money for something you want to do. You can always find the time for something that excites you. And it is the same for taking a quantum leap. If you have an area in which you think you should make a big change but you haven't done it yet, ask if you really intend to do it. You know the difference.
If you are working towards quantum leaps that have not yet occurred, be aware that everything you are doing right now in your life is getting you closer. Go inward for a moment and ask "What quantum leap am I in the process of taking? And how could something that happened in the last week or even today be preparing me to have it?"
The mind works better if
it has fixed reference points
in its progress along the way.
In some ways the mind is like a child. Children do not want to think of high school when they are two years old. They want to think of food, or their friends. The mind is the same way. Create something that is delightful tomorrow—one small step, or one small point of action that will bring you one step closer to your goal. The mind likes to have markers and feel a sense of accomplishment. What would be delightful for you to create tomorrow that would bring you one step
closer to your higher goal? At the same time ask yourself, "Is there any inner urging that I have right now about something I want to do that I have been putting off?" Something you have been thinking might take too much time, or might be off course?
In these ways you can begin working with your emotions and your mind to bring a quantum leap even closer. If each day you wake up and say, "What is my inner urging today?" and ask "What can I create so that my mind can see I am taking action to get closer to my goal?" there will be much greater progress in your leap forward. The mind likes to have a sense that it has accomplished things; you must keep it satisfied. The emotions are also much happier when they can see progress. Be aware that the actual steps you take may not turn out to be the necessary ones. They can still be quite satisfying and bring a sense of forward movement. The mind is unable at times to connect what is going on—the phone calls, the particular problems that come up—with forward movement. Often you have a great picture or vision, but each little piece of the puzzle is happening in present time and may not seem to fit the whole. Even a comment a friend makes to you, or a phone call, can very much be part of your forward movement. The mind, not knowing all of the areas that are being opened, or all the beliefs that are being changed, often cannot see the pattern and the movement. It does not think you are growing or that your goal is being reached. If it becomes impatient or disbelieving, it can cloud your emotions and make the leap more difficult. If you can give your mind the satisfaction of having accomplished an action, it should also help your emotions.
Ask yourself what step would you like to take that would be a step towards your goal. Ask yourself if there are any inner urges you have been getting for something you could do in the next month. It need not even seem related to your goal.
Make the decision that you will do it.
TAKING A QUANTUM LEAP
PLAYSHEET
What quantum leap would you like in your life?
Is there anything you would have to let go of to have it (belief, attitude, thing, person)?
What is the essence of this goal? Is there any other form that will give you the essence of what you want?
What is your motivation to have it, i.e. what would you get out of it?
Often, inner urges or whispers in your mind are connected to your quantum leap, even though they may not appear to be related. List any inner urges you have been having here.
What specific step, no matter how simple, can you take in the next week towards your goal?