Manifestation is the process of transforming your desires into reality. To manifest your desires all you have to do is know what you really want and then use all of your senses to imagine that you are experiencing what you want to be, do or have now. When you do this, because of the Law of Attraction, the experience or thing you desire will manifest into physical form.

To assist those of us who are beginners in manifestation, I’ve broken this process down into six steps:

1. Know what you don’t want
2. Know what you do want
3. Believe you will receive it by clearing your blocks to it and opening the flow of abundance
4. Ask for it
5. Give thanks for it
6. Follow any intuition or Guidance you receive

In the November/December 2006 issue of On Purpose Woman, I wrote an article on the first step: know what you don’t want. The article in this issue is about the second step: know what you DO want. What I love and find extremely challenging about this step is getting it that I really do have a say in what happens in my life and on the planet. By uncovering and naming what I really want, I am, in a sense, wording the world into existence. By owning this step, I truly claim my power as a conscious co-creator with the universe.

Since you can manifest ANYTHING you REALLY want… What do you want to be, do, or have so much that you will clear your blocks to it, learn how to imagine it is so, and allow it to manifest?

When we align the desires of our conscious, unconscious, and higher selves we become Master Manifesters and are able to effortlessly attract anything we want. For me the practice of step two, knowing what I want, is the practice of aligning the desires of these three aspects of myself. For example: my conscious mind wants an income that gives me the freedom to live in the home of my desires and keep it well tended. However, when I check in at a deeper level (to my unconscious), I am aware of a feeling/thought that is something like, “Ha! Like you’ll ever be able to afford to live in a great home and have the money to maintain it.” When I ask my higher self about this, the message I receive is that Awakening and being fully present in every cell is what is most important to me.

So, then, what do I do??? How do I know what to manifest? There are two exercises I will share with you here that can assist us on this journey.

One exercise has us explore the Essence qualities of the object of our desires. Essence qualities include joy, peace, love, wisdom, intimate depth, truth, energy, strength, and connection—to name a few. When we explore them, we gain clarity about what our Higher Selves are longing for us to experience. To do this exercise, ask yourself, “What are the Essence qualities I think I will experience when I have manifested the object of my desire?”

In my situation, the Essence qualities I think I will experience when I have manifested an income that allows me to live well in the home of my choice are: ease, home (a sense of belonging), power/strength, and connection with others. If I ask my Higher Self about manifesting these experiences, the response is, “You are already That. Let yourself experience these qualities and the home will come.” (That sounds like alignment to me.)

To align our conscious, unconscious, and higher selves we also need to find out what our unconscious wants. This second exercise is a way to do that. Write or say an affirmation that states that you are already experiencing the object of your desire then write or say the first thoughts that arise. Those first thought are often our unconscious’ objections and/or desires.

My affirmation is, “I am enjoying a life of ease in my wonderful and well maintained home.” My first thoughts are, “I can’t afford that. It’ll just be a lot of work. I don’t want to because it’s too much work. I like my life just as it is. I don’t want to work harder or more.”

As you can see by this example, I still have some blocks to manifesting an income that allows me to have a wonderful home that is well tended. I wonder… Do I really want it?

In the next issue of On Purpose Woman I will look at how the third step to manifestation, believing you will receive your desires by clearing your blocks to them and opening the flow of abundance, helps us clarify what we really want. Working through the third step gives us the confidence and willingness to shift our vibration into alignment with the object of our desire and imagine it into physical form.

Look for “Believe you will receive it by clearing your blocks to it and opening the flow of abundance… The third step to Manifesting all of your Desires” in the next issue of On Purpose Woman magazine.