Joyful Manifestation: Ten Steps to Empower Yourself and Attract a Happy and Successful Life

Joyful

Manifestation

Ten Steps to Empower Yourself and

Attract a Happy and Successful Life

Sugandhi Iyer

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Balboa Press rev. date: 09/08/2015

Contents

Dedications

Preface

PART I

Manifestation is Joyful

Chapter 1. Introduction to Joyful Manifestation

Chapter 2. Manifestation

Chapter 3. The Law of Attraction

Chapter 4. Abundance

Chapter 5. Desires—Can’t Live With Them, Can’t Live Without Them!

Chapter 6. Your Thoughts and Beliefs

Chapter 7.. Emotions

Chapter 8. Destiny and Free Will

PART II

Knowing Yourself

Chapter 9. God and Creation

Chapter 10. The Soul and the Self

Chapter 11. Gunas

Chapter 12. Your Purpose

Chapter 13. Wholeness

Chapter 14. Energy and Consciousness

Chapter 15. The Chakras and the Kundalini

Chapter 16. Karma

PART III

The Process

Chapter 17. Step 1: Evaluate Your Universe

Chapter 18. Step 2: Ask and Intend

Chapter 19. Step 3: Get Out of Conflict Energy

Chapter 20. Step 4: Create Yourself

Chapter 21. Step 5: Remove Obstacles to Joyful Manifestation

Chapter 22. Step 6: Get into the Correct Space

Chapter 23. Step 7: Create the Situation

Chapter 24. Step 8: Take Skillful Action

Chapter 25. Step 9: Allow

Chapter 26. Step 10: Receive and Maintain

Chapter 27. Soul Mate and Other Relationships

Chapter 28. Money Manifestation

PART IV

The Land of Joy and Miracles

Chapter 29. How it Feels Here

Chapter 30. Maintaining Your Joy

Chapter 31. Expansion and Success in Material Life

Chapter 32. Taking it to the World

Dedications

To my parents and the rest of my loving family.

To you, my readers and friends.

Let us intend to live joyfully; spreading love, joy, and abundance around this amazing world, for it belongs to us.

Love

Sugandhi Iyer

Preface

The idea for Joyful Manifestation formed over a few years. The first thought of writing a spiritually oriented success book came as I was going through a personal life event which made me seek answers to some of life’s most complex questions. The answers I found are shared in this book with you. This book will help you understand who you really are, what you are here for, what you really want, and show you how to get it. It will show you how to succeed in life and to be happy while seeking the things you most desire.

The laws that govern me also govern you, and the knowledge that helped me will also help you. The law of gravity applies to us all; nobody is spared from it. In the same way, the laws of the universe apply to all those who are a part of this universe, as everyone is subject to the same universal forces. The trick lies in learning how to work with these forces using the knowledge given to you by various sources, to navigate life successfully.

Joyful Manifestation is a mix of spirituality and success. There are various flavors that you will encounter on your journey through this book as it does represent life. You may find it intense in places, sometimes light, and sometimes invigorating and dynamic. I will explain certain terminologies and principles to help you understand your life, and to work with the universe to get what you want.

There are affirmations in this book to help you get into alignment with your goals. You will find these affirmations in bold letters, italics, and within quotes. Other statements that I want to bring to your attention are in bold letters and italics, but without quotes. Instead of saying ‘he/she’ every time, I will use ‘he’ even though in most cases I am not being gender specific. I will also use ‘he’ for God, but as you know God includes both male and female, is in fact beyond gender, and is nothing and everything at the same time.

You will find me using the words God, Self, Source, Higher Self, Inner Self, Core Self, True Self, the All, the soul, the universe, and the Divine interchangeably sometimes, as they all refer to the same power of creation, known by different names. A brief explanation of some of these terms:

• The Self, also known as the All, the Whole, Source, God, or Brahman, contains everything, including the personality that is you. Pure, because it is untouched by events, it includes the universe, the gods, and everything else, both dark and light. Though it includes the light and dark forces, the truth is that it is beyond the play of these forces.

• The Higher Self, Inner Self, Core Self, and True Self are ways of referring to that part of the Self which is divine, joyous, and all knowing. It is the voice of knowledge that comes to the rescue, interested in your well-being and is the true part of you unaffected by the play of this world.

• The soul is that part of the Self that can either limit itself to being a small part of the Whole, or expand into the Whole. The truth is that it is the Self itself.

• The word universe is used in two ways. It includes your actual manifested world and the manifesting force(s). The manifesting forces act according to your inner world. Simply put, your outside world is created from your inner universe.

• The Divine is the light aspect of the All. Being divine means embodying the light qualities at its best (it is a state that is free of darkness). It is the state of the Higher Self.

Ultimately, it is all you, the Self that wants to experience life.

Take your time with Joyful Manifestation because as you read this book you may have some consciousness shifts and ‘aha’ moments. Let the ‘aha’ moments happen as they change your energy and your vibrations. Take a deep breath and let the words in. Just allow. It’s also okay if you are not ready for the changes. Just put the book aside and come back to the words later. Take your time and make only such self-changes that you feel comfortable with. There is no rush to master anything. In fact, use the word ‘master’ with care as it is only there to help you conquer anything that may come between you and your creations. Anytime you feel like judging yourself, let the feeling go and reconnect to your inner power and joy. The true nature of your Self is joy, and when you find joy you find everything, because the vibration of joy is the highest of the creation vibrations in this world and is like your magic wand. Remember, joy is your true nature and the only one worth keeping. Happy reading!

Love,

Sugandhi Iyer

PART I

Manifestation is Joyful

It has been and always will be my joy that creates joyful situations. No other ingredient is required, except maybe a dollop of self-empowerment.

Chapter One

Introduction to Joyful Manifestation

You are the Source of it all, and this Source is joy itself.

W ithin you is a storehouse of something that lies low, just waiting to be experienced. It can be described in one word, ‘Source,’ as it is the source from which everything flows, including the knowledge that fuels creation.

This universe is created on the foundation of knowledge which pervades everything and is everywhere. When connected to Source, you have access to this knowledge. Many have connected to this knowledge in the past, and many still do, because every problem can be solved and every need fulfilled just by tapping into it.

Depending on their interests, people receive the information they require. If one is a scientist, one receives ideas and breakthroughs; if a spiritualist, one receives knowledge of the Spirit; and if an explorer, one receives knowledge about the world and its places. Since Source is also pure power, amazing feats and tasks can be handled when connected to this power, and you can create like Source would. Since Source is joy, peace, power, and love, all of your manifestations have no choice but to be joyful when they come from Source.

When you realize that you are Source, how much more powerful your manifestations will be!

WHAT DOES JOYFUL MANIFESTATION HAVE TO DO WITH THIS?

Manifestation is the transformation of spirit into physical form. Your material world is a reflection of your inner world and when your inner world contains excitement, delight, power, and joy, whatever you do happens from this space and brings back manifestations that embody that happiness, giving you cause for celebration. As you introduce joy into your inner psychological world, you will see your material world change and reflect that joy back to you.

As you change your focus, what you focus on also changes. While ‘abundance consciousness’ manifests as abundance in your life, ‘lack consciousness’ manifests as physical lack in your world. This lack manifests again and again until you make a conscious change. Since suffering or sadness gets physically manifested as lack, all manifestation—both conscious and unconscious—should come from the space of love, joy, and confidence. As you become more conscious of abundance, you will learn to be situated in joy more often, and this joy in turn manifests more abundance. It’s like depositing a sum of money in a CD and watching it grow while collecting interest, or like planting seeds and eating the fruits born by the trees that come out of those seeds. The fruits that you get depend on some factors like:

1. The seeds you plant,

2. The water and sunlight the plant/tree receives,

3. The health of the ground,

4. Your patience and care.

Once you plant the seeds of your life in joy, they will grow into joyful events. Even if undesired situations happen, you can use the Joyful Manifestation process to get back into a successful space. When you hit the vibration of joy with respect to any life area, it returns joy back to you.

Your single-minded determination to allow joy to be your guiding star is what gets you to where you want to go.

The vibration of joy is so powerful that lower vibrations cannot win or even survive in its light. When you become a Joyful Manifester you will live in a space of joy and your mind will feel good about itself and life in general. When you feel good, you become well-situated to attract good to yourself. Even if you were physically lost somewhere, if you could just connect to your joy, you would manifest being found.

When joy and abundance become your points of focus, you will have the Law of Attraction working to your advantage. You may have had moments and phases when you’ve had an easy flow of events, but in those life areas where you keep encountering hurdles, you can use the Joyful Manifestation process to get what you want to flow easily into your life.

Joyful Manifestation happens when you start becoming one with who you really are. When you realize that you are Source and connect to this truth, you become joyful, and manifest joyful situations. As you understand who you are, what your purpose is, and how this universe works, you will be better situated to walk toward the reality that you really want to see happen, rather than just being compelled to deal with situations.

Your life journey is all about getting into the space of true joy and creating what you want from that space. You should know that you attract good situations easily, because it is natural for you to do so. Go ahead and Joyfully Manifest your life.

Chapter Two

Manifestation

I am here to manifest my life experiences in a way that gives me joy.

W hy is the word manifestation so important these days? When I was growing up, I had not heard this word being used as it is nowadays. More people are talking about manifesting their life events now, than before.

It’s almost as if the power of the gods has been brought down to the people.

SO WHAT IS MANIFESTATION?

Manifestation is the process of creation. Basically, everything is in a state of unmanifest before it takes form and manifests. Before actual physical manifestation, everything is space, and in this space when thoughts occur, spirit moves energy to start a process of happening into physical form. After some time, when a physical form is no longer required, it is manifested back into space (demanifestation). There is always a process happening; from the unmanifest into manifest, and then back into the unmanifest. The Self (Source) is always kept intact during this process, because it is pure consciousness. It is just the physical forms that come into and out of existence as and when the Self desires. For example, if the Self has a vision of a garden filled with beautiful roses, this idea remains in space until energy forms into a garden of roses which is the actual physical manifestation of the vision. When this garden is no longer required, it is unmanifested or transformed by another idea.

The mind is an extension of the light of the Core Self, and contains the programming relevant to the personality (that which makes one tick) and pervades and forms the body. Some of the programming is well known, as it is in the conscious mind, while some of it is still unknown, as it is contained in the subconscious mind.

You become aware of this hidden programming when you come across certain situations that you finally understand to be patterns arising from the working of your mind and its tendencies, and your vibrational attraction factor. If something is happening, just know that it is happening because your mind contains instructions that attract people, situations, and things to you, causing you to act and react in certain ways. It is essential to change this programming in order for you to change your manifestations.

Manifestation is much more practical than what it is sometimes portrayed to be, and it is very much in your power to change your manifestations by changing your attraction of situations.

Manifestation happens all the time with or without you knowing it. You are always manifesting your life situations, and these manifestations happen according to the space that your mind is in.

MANIFESTATION OF DESIRES

Manifestation of desires is important because born into this material world, the importance of creation cannot be ignored. There are various schools of thought that totally discount the importance of the desires that fuel creation, and label them as bad or sinful. You are in a physical world, and it is imperative to respect the intentions of the creation force behind this world which uses desire as a tool of inspiration for creation. The skill lies in understanding these desires and working with them consciously to understand your life purpose, and the setting and implementation of useful and happy life goals.

DISCOVERING WHO YOU ARE IS IMPORTANT

The healthy and happy manifestation of life events rests entirely on the healthy and happy state of your mind which, when situated in positive thoughts, creates positive outcomes. To this end, discovering yourself and being aware of who you really are is important, otherwise your mind gets overcome by negative experiences, feels defeated, and gives into sadness and depression, creating a hotbed for even more negativity. Your mind is used to seeing only the external world as the truth and is unaware of its real truth, being untrained to look within and recognize its true identity. Since it is unaware of its true identity, it gets confused and stressed. Your mind has to register its real truth and purpose, bringing you into alignment with what you want. When your mind feels better about itself, it will be able to retain a confident and positive outlook on life.

There is more on the subject of who you really are in Part II of this book, but the following information will help for now.

You are a ‘being’ experiencing life, and for all purposes you can consider this ‘being’ as playing three separate roles, each role played in order to get the most intensive and expansive life experience. You can also understand it in this way; you are made up of three parts:

1. A core spark (your higher aspect) which retains its original carefree, joyful nature, is completely untouched by life events, and has a wide perspective of it all.

2. Your personality, created by your birth and life situations and subject to change and influences, which is the focused physical aspect of your being into this world.

3. The world that you deal with everyday, with which your personality interacts to have its life experience.

Yes, you are the Higher Self, the physical manifested being, and the universe, each one working with the others to get the best life experience possible. The need to understand that you are it all is important, because it stops the feeling of the world as being separate from you. It is not separate. It is you, or a part of you, as you are much more than just the focused physical person having a singular, pointed experience.

RESIDE IN THE SPACE OF JOY

The issue, if any, is that while the core of you knows that it is joy itself, your personality often loses track of this truth because of its constant involvement with the external world and its drama. You, the physical being, are unaware of the truth of who you really are. Under the constant push and pull of this external world, you often don’t identify with the real you, which is joy. Your Self is joy and if you are able to connect to your joy, you can bring this joy into your world and see it reflected everywhere. Free of the negatives of life, you would experience great health, happiness, wealth, and all that a joyful mind could conceptualize.

A joyful mind is one that is located in its true and joyful nature, free of the play of negativity, and it is in this space of being located in joy and having positive feelings and expectations that joyful events are manifested. Since the normal tendency is to have thoughts and perform actions according to the mental space you are in, it is best to watch this space and keep shifting it into happiness.

The space you are in creates your life. This is the simplest way to sum up the art of manifestation. Since all physical space is the result of your mental space, it is best to keep this mental space in joy.

Think of a room in your house. How is this room? Is it comfortable, crowded, roomy, beautiful, well-lit, happy, or gloomy? This room reflects your taste in décor and your affordability. It reflects you and the space you are currently in. Of course, you could be completely detached from your room and what it looks like, but still the very fact of your detachment is reflected in your taste. If you were a monk, it could be that the room is decorated very simply, and you may even sleep on the floor. Then the other extreme; think of the opulent harems maintained by some kings for their pleasure—and you know what I am speaking off. The activities of the harems reflect their mood and décor. Whatever you do while in this room reflects the mood of the room and what it means to you. Your energy is intertwined with the mood of the room and it with yours, and all manifestation happens accordingly. The physical space you are in reflects you, and whatever