The Manifestation Wheel: A Practical Process for Creating Miracles - Softcover

Seale, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1578634148 ISBN 13: 9781578634149

Publisher: Weiser Books, 2008

Synopsis

Drawing on his deep and profound knowledge of metaphysical laws including the Law of Attraction and the Law of Gestation, quantum physics, and our increasing understanding of energy fields, not to mention his work with thousands of people who want to bring change into their lives and the world, Alan Seale has written a book that can change the world. There are eight houses on the Manifestation Wheel: intention, peace, energy, guidance, empowerment, action, surrender, legacy. Seale teaches a process that allows readers to tap into their own intuition and the collective consciousness. For example, intention -- where we start -- takes us beyond "I want" to "what wants to happen." When those two are in alignment amazing things can happen. The more our thoughts, beliefs, decisions and actions are in alignment the clearer our physical manifestation will be. We can use the process to find a new job or a new love. As we surrender to the process and manifest our legacy -- even in those very personal projects -- we are becoming more conscious of and contributing to the positive evolution of mass consciousness.

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About the Author

Alan Seale is a highly sought after leadership and transformation coach. He has led workshops and keynote presentations at the Kripalu Center in Lenox, MA; the International Coach Federation annual conference in St. Louis, MO; the South Bay Organizational Development Network in Silicon Valley, CA; and similar events nationally. He is the author of Intuitive Living and Soul Vision;Life Mission. He lives in Rochester, New York.

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the Manifestation Wheel

A practical process for creating miracles

By Alan Seale

Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC

Copyright © 2008 Alan Seale
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-57863-414-9

Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 How Manifestation Works
Chapter 2 An Overview of the Manifestation Wheel
Chapter 3 House #1: Intention
Chapter 4 House #2: Peace
Chapter 5 House #3: Energy
Chapter 6 House #4: Guidance
Chapter 7 House #5: Empowerment
Chapter 8 House #6: Action
Chapter 9 House #7: Surrender
Chapter 10 House #8: Legacy
Chapter 11 The Manifestation Wheel in Your Personal Life
Chapter 12 The Manifestation Wheel in Your Organization or Business
Conclusion: Manifestation as a Way of Life
Bibliography

CHAPTER 1

How Manifestation Works

If we were not making such an immense effort to separate ourselves from life, wemight actually live life day to day, minute by minute, as a series ofpredictable miracles.

–Peter Senge, from his introduction to Joseph Jaworski'sSynchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership

Manifestation is a process of transforming and aligning energy for dynamic andsustainable results. It occurs when purpose, potential, thought, intention,belief, and action are in perfect alignment. This alignment engenders a processof co-creation with the energy and potential available through the greaterConsciousness.

Consciousness is the unseen and as yet unexplained source of all of creation. Itis the creating and sustaining force of all that is seen and unseen, known andunknown, and the web of energy that connects it all. It is pure energy. It's theglue that holds everything in the seen and unseen worlds together. Depending onyour belief system, you may call it God, Spirit, or Great Mystery. Here, I callit simply "Consciousness" and capitalize it to differentiate it from anindividual's or group's consciousness. For example, the mass consciousness ofthe society or an individual's consciousness is not the same as Consciousness,the creating and sustaining force of the universe.

In our culture, when you have a goal or a project in mind, the first questionyou ask yourself is usually: How am I going to do it? You start figuring outwhat you need to do, to whom you need to talk, and what you must have in orderto make it happen. You start from your current situation or circumstance and useyour skills, intellectual knowledge, and understanding of how life works toaccomplish your goal or complete the project.

The art of manifestation, on the other hand, engages your intuitive mind, whichincludes your intellect and rational thought process, but extends to the unseenworld of energy and potential. It transcends linear time and space, greatlyexpanding your awareness and opening the door to a whole new world ofinformation. In the manifestation process, while you must take certain steps andconsider certain facts to achieve your desired outcome, you draw on anintellectual and intuitive understanding of energy and potential that guides youto each subsequent step. Your actions flow from a sense of "knowing" and lettingthe future show you the way, rather than being locked in to an intellectual planfor getting where you want to go. The manifestation process is very organic andnot always methodical. You just know intuitively what needs to happen next.

Manifestation works with energy to create form rather than trying to change oneform into another. It doesn't "fix" things or solve problems. It gives birth toa whole new reality or circumstance in which the problem no longer exists or isirrelevant. It's a co-creative process of unfolding potential. The potential iswhat wants to happen; you partner with it by creating the optimal conditions forits unfolding.

Have you ever done all of the right things to make something happen, yetcouldn't get the result you wanted? And have you also wanted something to happenand in fact it did happen without taking the steps you thought were going to benecessary? Why did you succeed in one instance and not in the other? The answeris alignment of energy. Intentional manifestation aligns your thoughts, beliefs,emotions, decisions, and actions–all forms of energy–with what you desire orwith potential wanting to unfold. This alignment sets up a vibrational frequencythat attracts the circumstances and conditions for the potential to becomereality. You can take all of the right steps and heed the advice of all of theright people, but if your thoughts, beliefs, emotions, decisions, and actionsare not in complete alignment with one another and with what you desire, you maynot get the result you want–at least not in its full potential.

Quantum Physics

Quantum physics tells us that, at its most fundamental level, everything is madeup of vibrating energy. That includes objects, organizations, situations,thoughts, and people. And this energy cannot be created or destroyed. It canonly be transformed. The quantum field consists of energy that is purepotential. It is a dynamic, invisible web of inseparable vibrating energypatterns that encompasses the entire universe. All of creation is born out ofthese energy patterns, and through this invisible web everything is connected toeverything else.

At the quantum level, this energy has no set form. It exists as pure potentialand has the ability to take any form. Therefore, the quantum field is anenergetic field of potential and possibility. Leading-edge physicists,philosophers, and spiritual teachers now acknowledge that the quantum field maybe related to Consciousness. Consciousness may, in fact, be the web thatconnects everything within the quantum field. Some physicists acknowledge thatthere appears to be an unexplainable intelligence operating within the quantumfield—an intelligence that moves us forward in an evolutionary process. In a1944 lecture, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Max Planck said:

As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to thestudy of matter, I can tell you as the result of my research about the atomsthis much: There is no matter as such! All matter originates and exists only byvirtue of a force which brings the particles of an atom to vibration and holdsthis most minute solar system of the atom together ... We must assume behindthis force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is thematrix of all matter.

This "conscious and intelligent Mind" is what I call Consciousness. Likewise,Albert Einstein once said: "Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit ofscience becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe—aspirit vastly superior to man." This "spirit" I also call Consciousness. Therelationship between Consciousness, or the "intelligent Mind," and the quantumfield can help us begin to understand how some of the techniques and tools ofthe ancient traditions work.

The tools and techniques of the ancient traditions were, in fact, theirtechnologies. We tend to think of technology as applied to machines andindustry. But the sages of the ancient traditions were masters at using thetechnology of energy. Quantum theory is now showing us the science behind thoseancient technologies. As we perfect our use of energy technology, we discoverjust how advanced the ancient cultures actually were.

Let's look a little deeper at energy and how it works at the quantum level.Everything at its most fundamental level is made up of vibrating packets ofenergy. Sometimes those packets form objects or specific ideas (particles, inthe terms of quantum physics), occupying a specific time and space. In otherwords, the packets of energy may become organized to form a chair or a person ora concept. The energy takes a specific form that we can grasp physically and/orintellectually. At other times, the energy packets behave like waves of energy,vibrating over a larger space and time and taking no specific form. These wavesare pure potential—energy that has not yet taken on a specific shape or form,but remains capable of taking any form. What causes the energy to pass frompotential into form? The answer is: Your choice.

Consider that the possibilities in life are random and limit-less—purepotential—until you choose one. Your choice may be conscious or unconscious,depending on your level of self-awareness. When you have a high level of self-awareness,you give careful attention to which thoughts and beliefs you energizeand which ones you don't. At a lesser level of self-awareness, thoughts take ona life of their own. Where there is little or no discipline of thought, there islittle conscious control of choice. Whatever thought you focus on and giveenergy to becomes your choice. You may think you are choosing one thing, but, infact, if you focus thought and energy on something else, that will end up beingyour choice.

When you make a choice, you energize a specific thought. That choice directs thepotential to manifest into form, beginning the process of changing somethingfrom an idea to a reality. For example, let's say you are going to build ahouse. In the field of potential, there are an infinite number of possibledesigns you could choose or create for your new house. Until you make a choice,theoretically any one of the infinite number of designs is possible. However, atthe moment you make a choice and start to build, the potential has begun to takeform. A specific design and structure is now taking shape.

You've no doubt heard the saying: Be careful what you wish for; you just mightget it. This is just another way of saying that what you think about comes aboutbecause you give energy to it. Through your focused thought, you begin tomanifest a result. Athletes are great examples of how thought can manifestresults. There are countless stories of athletes who visualized their perfectperformance, feeling every move and sensation in their bodies, and ended upwinning the gold medal. We hear again and again about athletes who overcameenormous physical challenges to make the Olympic team, or about teams thatdidn't appear to have a chance but, through focus, intention, and commitment,ended up winning the championship.

The more self-aware you are and the greater your intuitive awareness, the moreable you are to tap into the greatest potential available within any situationor circumstance. You ask: In the best of all possible outcomes, what reallywants to happen here? As you perceive that best possible outcome, you can chooseto "partner" with it, helping it become reality. Potential cannot become realityunless it has a partner in the physical realm. Partnering with potential meanshelping it "cross the bridge" from the unseen world to the three-dimensionalworld. Until a person or a group chooses to partner with a potential or be itssteward and facilitate its manifestation, it cannot become realized in thethree-dimensional world. A potential may exist, for example, for a dynamic newbusiness to be created or a service to be provided, but until you partner withthat potential and steward it across the bridge, nothing can be created.

How do you do that? As humans, we have two fundamental aspects of our being:soul and ego. Soul is the portal through which Consciousness moves into theworld. It is your essence, the core of your being—through soul you recognizeyour oneness with all that is. Ego is that which "thinks" and distinguishesitself from what it thinks about. It is the part of you that experiences andreacts to the outside world and to others. Ego relates to all things physicaland to anything having to do with the physical world—your body, yourpersonality, your intellect, and your skills.

Soul lives both in a physical body and in the greater Consciousness. Ego livesonly in the physical, three-dimensional world. Because you are both ego andsoul, you can access both the seen and unseen worlds. Therefore you are a bridgebetween Consciousness and this physical reality. Through your intuitive mind,the mind of soul, you can tap into Consciousness to discover the potential thatis waiting to unfold through any particular situation or circumstance. Thepotential itself be comes your first partner for co-creation. As its partner inthe physical dimension, you commit to being its steward and invite it to crossthe bridge with you into physical reality. You then bring your thoughts,intentions, beliefs, choices, and actions into complete alignment with thatpotential in order to create the optimal conditions for it to manifest in form.We will use the Manifestation Wheel to facilitate this process.

Universal Laws

Why is the alignment of energy so important? We live in a holographic universe.A hologram is a pattern that is whole and complete within itself, while at thesame time containing the essence of a larger pattern that is whole and completewithin itself, which in turn contains the essence of a larger pattern that iswhole and complete, and so on. In a hologram, every part contains the essence ofthe whole. The effect of a holographic universe can be understood through thesimple metaphor of mirrors reflecting in each other. At some point in your life,you have probably stood in front of a three-way mirror in a clothing store ortailor's fitting room and seen how, in the mirror's reflection, the image ofyour body is reflected an infinite number of times. Using that memory as acontext, imagine that you are completely surrounded by mirrors—six panels aroundyou as well as a mirrored floor and ceiling. The image of your body is nowreflected in every direction out to infinity. This is a very simple metaphor fora holographic universe. Whatever the essence of the center object may be, it isimmediately reflected out to infinity through the endless mirrored reflections.Any change in the essence of the center object is instantaneously reflected outto infinity.

You are the center of your own holographic universe. It is your energy vibrationthat is actually reflected or, perhaps more clearly stated, broadcast out to theuniverse. Whatever you think, intend, believe, choose, and do is instantaneouslybroadcast as an energy vibration. If your thoughts, beliefs, choices, andactions are aligned with one another, they create a strong signal. If they arenot aligned, they create a weak or conflicted signal. As the message isbroadcast, it attracts thoughts, beliefs, people, circumstances, and situationsof a similar energy.

What scientists now call the holographic principle was understood in the ancientEgyptian and Greek mystery schools as the Laws of Mentalism and Correspondence.The Law of Mentalism states that everything exists within the mind ofGod/Consciousness, and God/Consciousness exists within the mind of everything.This is simply another way of saying that the whole contains all of the parts,and the parts contain the whole. It means that every one of us exists within thegreater Consciousness and that Consciousness exists within us. Therefore, youare born with the ability to access Consciousness and all its potential andpossibility because the essence of it is within you. You just have to practiceand develop that ability so that tapping into Consciousness becomes your way oflife.

The Law of Correspondence states: As above, so below; as below, so above. Thislaw is another way of saying that your thoughts and actions are mirrored in theuniverse and mass consciousness, and that what happens in the universe and massconsciousness is in some way mirrored in you. This means that, if somethingexists as potential in Consciousness, there is already a seed for it in thethree-dimensional world. It cannot exist in one realm without existing in allrealms. Furthermore, if it exists in your imagination, then there is a seed ofthat potential already planted in both the three-dimensional realm and in therealm of Consciousness. Hence, Walt Disney's famous dictum: If you can dream it,you can achieve it.

This is also evidenced in how new ideas become realities. When people have abrilliant idea and keep thinking about it, they feed a lot of energy to thatidea. The more they focus on it, the more the potential starts to take form andstructure in consciousness. If they don't take action, however, soon someoneelse will grab that same idea out of consciousness and begin to manifest it. Itwas just waiting for someone to become its steward and help it cross the bridgeinto the physical world. As above, so below; as below, so above.

There are two other laws that are important to the process of manifestation: TheLaw of Vibration and its subsidiary law, the Law of Attraction. The Law ofVibration tells us that energy is in constant motion and has a vibrationalfrequency. The Law of Attraction tells us that like attracts like—in otherwords, vibrational frequencies always attract similar energies. Your thoughts,intentions, beliefs, choices, and actions are all energies vibrating atparticular frequencies, and they will attract similar energies. This is whyalignment of energy is the key to manifestation. When your intention, thoughts,beliefs, decisions, and actions are in complete alignment with one another andwith the potential with which you are partnering, you broadcast a very strongsignal. The holographic nature of the universe broadcasts that signal andattracts the conditions and circumstances necessary for the potential to becomereality. As steward for the potential, the stronger the signal you broadcast,the more you attract the conditions and circumstances necessary for thepotential to become reality.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Weiser Books
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1578634148
• ISBN 13: 9781578634149
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 188