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How to “Think” the Future You Want Into Your Present


How to “Think” the Future You Want Into Your Present

Today I want to talk about how to “Think” the future you want into your present.  What I mean is that you are never going to get exactly what you want unless you have a blueprint.

A builder can have all the hammers, the saws, the materials in the world but if he doesn’t have a blueprint of the structure he needs to build, he can’t build it.

In our minds, we need to see what we want. When we know what we want, is when Spirit can go out and help us achieve it. We will also attach emotions to the things that we want, but it always comes back to thoughts.

If you don’t know what it is that you want, then sit with yourself and get quiet. 

Feel the discontent of where you are right now. What is the longing that causes that discontent? Is it a new home, a new car, a new job, a family, perfect health?

Within the discontent is where you’re going to find the longing that will help you build your blueprint. But you need to sit with it long enough to make sure this is YOUR real longing and not something that you think has made other people happy or that you’ve been taught by your family or peers is something you want.

When you discover what that longing really is, I want you to write it down.  I want you to start writing it as, “I am so happy and grateful now that I am….” You are bringing it into the present. You are activating your gratitude and joy. You’re creating from the “I am” which is the God presence.  

You are in the present tense – it’s not something that is in the future, it’s not something in the past. It’s what is right now.

It’s a really simple tool and it sounds like it’s nothing. But I’m telling you it’s huge.

The principles that I am teaching you are deceptively simple. That doesn’t mean they are easy to implement or accomplish because sometimes we have so much of our own head trash in the way. What these practices do is help you to get your thinking in a certain pattern so you can move faster towards accomplishing your goals.

This is going to allow the head trash to come up so that you can examine it and move it out of the way. This is important because we often don’t realize what we are thinking – it’s mostly unconscious. 

Our unconscious mind runs our life. Unless we do the work to find these unconscious thoughts and bring them out into the open we are going to be run by those negative thoughts.  

That is not going to lead you to your real desires.

When you come into the present and are talking and thinking about what you want as if you have it right now, this will allow you to clear those negative, unconscious thoughts. You can see them, release them and start moving in a forward direction. This is also going to raise your vibration.


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With love,

Kathleen M. Flanagan

#1 International Best Seller and Multi-Award Winning Author, Transformational Expert and Coach, Aromatherapist and Sound Therapist

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