5) FOCUS ON YOUR INNER BEING. Bring into your mind exactly what you want and need in your life. If you seek within and find a need for comfort, pray for comfort and it will appear in dreams, solace from others and synchronicity leading to right person, book or study group. If it is money or a life-partner that you want, then prepare for change that is coming. Since you are shifting physical reality, expect and accept inevitability of change. See and sense it so that you don’t panic in middle of stream and resist your coming good.

6) SEE THE DIRECTION OF FLOW. Double-check to make sure that you are working in accord with every aspect of your being. Where attention goes, energy flows, so make sure your energetic stream is flowing in direction that’s right for you. See big picture.

7) BELIEVE WHAT YOU CONCEIVE. Once your desired outcome is firmly in mind, write it down feelingly so that it animates power of your heart. Be sure that your affirmation is credible. If you write, "I’m in receipt of $5 million right now," your logic will reject this as improbable. If it’s money that you want, decide what you need in order to accomplish your goals and declare that this sum is making its way to you. You have to be able to believe what you conceive.

8) CRAFT YOUR WISH. Create symbolic representations of your heart’s desire to energize it. You can draw your own images or cut out colorful, vibrant pictures from magazines. Place these images and your written affirmations where you will see them often, such as a bathroom mirror, refrigerator or computer screen, or all three! You could also create a poster of any size and dress it up with glitter, slogans or anything else that appeals to you. The more energy you put into your images and words, quicker your results. Desire propels intention, so let your feelings and thoughts empower what you want to manifest, knowing that what you seek is on its way to you.

Some of these manifestation principles are taught in a 12-week course that I’ve taken repeatedly, called "The 4-T Principles of Prosperity," by late, great Unity teacher Stretton Smith. Story is a wonderful source of encouragement in this program, so I’ll share one of my stories with you.

Several years ago, I pasted a big picture of a cruise ship on a poster-board and taped poster on inside door of my meditation room. Upon moving house, I hung it up on door of my new meditation room, but paid no attention to it and only a few months ago restated my wish to teach on a paid-for cruise. After seeing movie "What Bleep Do We Know?!" I went into meditation, wrote three powerful affirmations and voiced them often over past few months.

One of these affirmations was: "My heart is filled with love which pours out of me to world and returns in financial rewards and exciting opportunities to heal and be healed." Not only was I soon invited, out of blue, to lead an Oct. 4-12 Flow of Intuition cruise to Caribbean–join us!–as you can see from this newsletter, I suddenly find myself exorcising "ghosts" from my past while, by no coincidence, beginning to heal others through brainwave biofeedback training.

In my affirmation, I asked for exactly what my soul-self wanted and needed, but preferred to be open enough to receive unforeseen possibilities. These arrived quickly as I reinvested energy in them.

9) AMP UP THE VOLTAGE. If you have an open-minded friend, ask him or her to get together with you by phone or in person to support your goals. It’s best for your friend to paraphrase your affirmation with his/her own feelings, as in "I see hundred dollar bills drifting down all around you, and you joyously gathering them up to pay for your shiny new red Toyota." (Be specific, if you need to be.) Or, "I see and feel and know that perfect partner is awakening to your inner beauty and sensing how to find you right now!" (Be non-specific, if you are able to surrender to divine right order.)

You will be amazed at difference it makes to hear someone else share your dream(s)! Energy moves quickly when two or more are gathered together to manifest good. Gather all supporters you can.

If you and your manifestation partners are open to idea of prayer, it certainly helps to call on not just your power of mind, but also power of Spirit. In this case, you could phrase your affirmation in affirmative prayer: "God rejoices in giving you a shiny new red car so you can travel to that perfect job and your life will be blessed and enriched. You deserve everything good in life, and power of Spirit within you grows stronger moment by moment to attract infinite power of Good."

See how energy amps up when we draw on inter-dimensional energies of Spirit? If word God evokes in you images of an angry, vengeful judge with a white beard, your partner can say, "God in you" or "The source of good within you" does this or that. It’s all same. The God-energy doesn’t care about names.

10) BE JOYFUL, FAITHFUL AND PATIENT. Once you have amplified your affirmation, be assured that change is on its way. Watch for patterns and events foreshadowing this coming change and be patient as new beginnings take shape. You might get exactly what you asked to manifest, or what comes might be a prelude to real thing.

No matter what, expect that your heart, mind and soul are co-creating with power of Love and that this work is already underway. Be grateful, happy and even joyful that this power exists within and all around you, waiting for your love and faith to animate it. You will never be given a stumbling block, only a stepping stone, and each will take you exactly where your soul-self needs and wants to go.

If you find that these energies stir up old thoughts and emotions, just open up, release them and let Love carry away what you no longer need. Do this consciously and repeatedly, if necessary. Remember that you don’t have to get wrapped up in past events; you can simply observe them and love yourself for excellent healing work that you are doing.

Happy new beginnings! By courageously moving into your past, you are emerging on other side of it into an exciting new life. You, as Light, enliven and energize us all!

Judith Pennington is a writer, singer and coast-to-coast teacher of meditation and evolution of human consciousness. She is author of The Voice of Soul, a compelling personal journey into meditative writing and guiding wisdom of soul. Visit her primary website, www.eaglelife.com, to check for a workshop near you, read excerpts from her book and sign up for her free e-newsletter, "The Still, Small Voice," and subscription e-zine, "OneWorld Spirit," dedicated to art, beauty, truth, spiritual politics and global peace.

It is easy to do this because we know who we are. We are souls observing our selves and what happens in this earth plane for sake of learning. We are not trapped here, but choose to be here. In this sense of choice and freedom rests fearlessness, courage and ability to stay peaceful.

By remaining open-hearted, we stay connected with our soul’s infinite wisdom and its creative solutions. We understand how to respond—what, if anything, to say—because our inner wisdom prompts us. In silence we are able to listen to, hear, feel, sense and see transcendent perspectives of our open, loving hearts.

Our intuition is an inner knowing of spiritual truth. It expands us beyond ordinary thinking mind into transcendent sixth-sense perspectives of inner knowing, feeling, sensing, hearing and seeing. Going deeper within our souls, we observe that any and all negative thoughts are erased from our minds and replaced by a clear sense of direction. At same time, Light heals physical discomfort, pain, stress and fatigue.

STEP 3. Sometimes our hearts are opened by another person’s kindly word, smile or touch, as with my friend David. Sometimes opening occurs during a walk in woods, as nature delights us and points way home.

But what if someone is yelling at or demeaning us in some way that causes pain?

We can ask that person to please calm down so that we may listen better to what he or she has to say. If person does so and we wish to listen, but nevertheless begin to lose our peace, we can draw our full attention to heart and center busy mind in heart.

The energy of heart will relax our thinking. We can open to heart’s love and ask for OneMind to help us flow into Love, so that this light circulates into every atom and cell of our bodies. Be assured that it will. This heart-centering will help us listen better to other person and return love. By law of magnetic resonance, other person will attune to our energies and grow more loving.

This has been proved in experiments conducted by The Mind-Life Institute in cooperation with Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibet. A Buddhist monk and veteran, 30-year meditator was placed in a room with a professor outraged by idea of reincarnation. The man berated monk loudly and to no avail. The monk listened placidly and did not flinch once; in fact, he was hooked up to electrodes and there was no "startle" response whatsoever. Finally professor grew just as calm and willing to conduct a reasonable conversation.

Try this for yourself. Be peacemaker and see what happens.

STEP 4. We can keep our hearts open by freeing ourselves from judgment. The verbal thinking mind loves to name everything and remember similar situations that it then relives and discusses with itself. The ego says, "Aha, I recognize who this person is, because So-and-So was that way, too. This person is devious and dangerous." Even if ego is right, this judgment narrows our perspectives and our ability to clearly perceive full truth about other person, who, like us, is much more than what was done.

A single, solitary judgment triggers a volley of thinking that closes heart, blocks inner wisdom and separates us from ourselves, other person and God! Moreover, constantly reliving past keeps us from being fully present to now-moment and serving as a creative, shining light to other people.

The antidote is not to let thinking mind name, categorize, judge and persecute anyone—us included. We can move naming, thinking mind into silence by teaching it that no matter what comes up within us or in external reality—an angry person, loss of a job, illness, death of a loved one—it is a wave of experience that brings healing and growth. It comes to rid us of what is no longer needed and to evoke in us anything that might be missing. In world of Spirit, nothing is lost. All is accounted for.

STEP 5. We can be at-one with goodness by keeping our hearts open, rejoicing in beauty of world and seeking something to love in every person we meet, including derelict on street who teaches us that this is not who we want to be. Even if we feel repulsed, we can look at this person closely enough to find something in him or her to love. Some facial characteristic, some trait...because if love is in air, it is also in each of us, even at our worst.

Do we have to judge or detest that derelict? My inner wisdom says no, because this person has just given me gift of knowing myself. I am grateful for that gift and can reach out to return love without needing or expecting appreciation.

In my experience, we come here to open our hearts and love ourselves, others and God. If we feel cold and aloof or separate and apart much of time, there is a very good chance that our lives are cloudy and gray.

Do you have all of love, money, happiness and peace that you want in your life? If not, check to see if your heart is open and joyfully aware of abundance in each and every precious thing in you and your life.

If your heart is closed, you can open it easily with these mind-expansion techniques which enable us to become present to present. In opening to Love, you will be enlivened by its joy and peace, so that everything you need and so richly deserve will come to you. All else will be pruned away, healed, to make room for fresh growth.

This is simple and magical secret of life: You have within you all Love needed to create and attract life you want. Love calls you to shine your light, for love and love alone will heal our world.

If we stay peaceful, we can catch waves of love upswelling in our hearts and ride them with perfect balance into our everyday choices and actions for economic parity, social justice and environmental responsibility.

To create a perfect planet of peace and love, all we have to do is remember that love is in air. We can bring its Light into being with thought of it, need of it, hope of Love that is it. In this wave is spiritual awakening of our world.

Judith Pennington is a writer, singer and coast-to-coast teacher of meditation and evolution of human consciousness. She is author of a ground-breaking book, The Voice of Soul, about her extraordinary journey into inspired writing, guiding wisdom of soul and science of spirituality. Visit her primary website, www.eaglelife.com, to check for a workshop near you, sign up for her free e-newsletter, "The Still, Small Voice," and read complementary articles in her paid-for e-magazine, OneWorld Spirit, devoted to art, beauty, truth, spiritual politics and global peace.